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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. According to the old couple, at what point will the girl be ready to leave them?
(a) When she can recite all of their teachings..
(b) When she can see visions in the water gourd
(c) When she can survive on the mountain of the white tigers.
(d) When she can point to the sky and a sword appears.

2. For how long does the girl agree to stay with the people she meets?
(a) Ten years.
(b) Fourteen years.
(c) Fifteen years.
(d) Seven years.

3. How many children were in Maxine's aunt's family?
(a) Two.
(b) Three.
(c) Five.
(d) Four.

4. Why does Maxine add a word to boys' names?
(a) It is part of the Chinese culture.
(b) She feels it shows sisterly affection.
(c) It is a sign of romantic affection.
(d) She does not have any brothers of her own.

5. 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 they are all true.
(d) If she has changed the names.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Maxine's aunt do after delivering her baby?

2. How old is Maxine at the beginning of the fantastical story she tells about herself?

3. What do the people she meets show the girl to convince her to stay?

4. Where does Maxine attend college in the sixties?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Moon Orchid and Brave Orchid act when they are reunited for the first time in years?

2. Do you think the narrator's aunt was a victim or an adultress? Explain why or why not.

3. Why did the narrator's mother did not mind girls cheating off of her in school?

4. What is narrator's impression of her mother when looking at the old medical school photograph?

5. What is one thing Moon Orchid notices about Brave Orchid's home that she thinks is strange? Explain why she thinks it is strange.

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

7. Do you think the story of the narrator's aunt is true? Explain why or why not.

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

9. What bothers the narrator the most about the mentally retarded man who comes and sits in the laundry?

10. In "White Tigers," why does the young woman hide her gender from her army?

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