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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who tells Maxine the story of her aunt?
(a) The narrator's sister.
(b) The narrator's father.
(c) The narrator's grandmother.
(d) The narrator's mother.

2. What is the main reason Maxine's mother likes to tell stores?
(a) To keep from falling asleep.
(b) To show her understanding of story-telling techniques.
(c) To make money.
(d) To warn her children about life.

3. What does the woman give the women with bound feet?
(a) Beads.
(b) New shoes.
(c) Bags of rice.
(d) Salve and prayers.

4. Who does the girl see as her future husband in the water gourd?
(a) A man she meets on the mountain.
(b) A distant cousin.
(c) An army warrior.
(d) A childhood playmate.

5. Which of these ideas is not introduced in "No Name Woman"?
(a) Ghost stories.
(b) The narrator's relationship with her mother.
(c) Chinese culture.
(d) The narrator's relationship with her siblings.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Maxine fired from her job at the land developer's association?

2. Why does Maxine re-tell her aunts story?

3. Which of these is a possibility Maxine considers to explain her aunt's pregnancy?

4. What substance is the girl shown that could allow her to live forever?

5. What does the enemy's leader, a prince, steal from the woman?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the narrator feel about Brave Orchid's relationship with the slave girl?

2. Why does the narrator always add the word "brother" to boys' names?

3. According to the narrator, does the narrator's aunt ever say who impregnated her?

4. What is one secret the narrator learns when she reads her sixth grade school file?

5. How does the narrator feel when she is told not to speak of her aunt?

6. How does Moon Orchid die?

7. What is Moon Orchid's first impressions of Brave Orchid's husband?

8. Why do you think the author emphasized that all of Brave Orchid's children majored in science and math?

9. When she is about to stay overnight in the haunted room at school, what does the narrator's mother tell the other girls at medical school to do if they find her very afraid in the morning?

10. What are at least two of the most difficult things on the narrator's list that she tells her mother?

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