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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. What does Maxine's aunt do after delivering her baby?
(a) She throws herself and her baby down the well.
(b) She runs away from the village with her baby.
(c) She returns to her home with her baby.
(d) She hides her baby in the forest.

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

3. What does Maxine question about her mother's stories?
(a) If they are warnings for the future.
(b) If she believes them herself.
(c) If she has changed the names.
(d) If they are all true.

4. How often does Maxine's mother tell stories?
(a) Weekly.
(b) Once a year.
(c) Monthly.
(d) Nightly.

5. According to Chinese custom, where would Maxine's mother and aunt have lived after their husbands left?
(a) In the same home.
(b) With their in-laws.
(c) In their own homes.
(d) Outside the village

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the girl see as her future husband in the water gourd?

2. For how long does the girl agree to stay with the people she meets?

3. What does the old couple give the girl, now a young woman, as a parting gift?

4. How many years has it been since Maxine's mother told the narrator the story of her aunt?

5. While with her army, what does the woman do at night?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why are the narrator and her sister referred to a therapist?

3. How do the girls at the medical school get materials to burn out the ghost from the haunted room in the dorms?

4. What are two of the three Chinese customs the narrator comments on after pondering how her aunt became pregnant?

5. Why doesn't the narrator visit her parents often?

6. What are some things Moon Orchid has trouble adjusting to in America? Name at least three things.

7. Describe the narrator's relationship with other students in her elementary school.

8. In "White Tigers," for what purpose do the woman and her husband have a one-month ceremony?

9. Describe the events leading up to the narrator's mother's decision to become a doctor.

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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