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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Which of these is a possibility Maxine considers to explain her aunt's pregnancy?
2. What do the traditional Chinese stories, like those told by Maxine's mother, teach Chinese girls they can be?
3. According to Chinese custom, where would Maxine's mother and aunt have lived after their husbands left?
4. What group terrorizes Maxine's family in China?
5. Where does Maxine's aunt deliver her baby?
Short Essay Questions
1. How do Moon Orchid and Brave Orchid act when they are reunited for the first time in years?
2. What happens to the baron's family after the woman beheads the baron?
3. What are at least two of the most difficult things on the narrator's list that she tells her mother?
4. 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?
5. What does speaking American feminine mean to the narrator?
6. Why do you think the author emphasized that all of Brave Orchid's children majored in science and math?
7. What are two of the three Chinese customs the narrator comments on after pondering how her aunt became pregnant?
8. How does Moon Orchid's husband react when he sees her?
9. Describe the events leading up to the narrator's mother's decision to become a doctor.
10. Why are the narrator and her sister referred to a therapist?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe the narrator's relationship with the quiet girl at school, particularly their interactions. Why do you think the narrator picks on the quiet girl? What do the narrator's actions reveal about her upbringing and her opinions about herself?
Essay Topic 2
The role of women in Chinese culture is a strong theme in the novel. Choose two of the following options to respond to.
1) What are some of the narrator's major concerns about how women are treated in Chinese culture? Describe at least three.
2) According to the narrator, is the role of a Chinese woman in America the same or different from the role of a Chinese woman in China? Explain why or why not.
3) Do you think the narrator is a traditional woman with respect to the Chinese culture? Explain why or why not.
Essay Topic 3
Throughout the novel, there are many ghosts, imaginary beings and legendary characters in the narrator's mother's stories and the narrator's accounts of different stories. Choose three of these creatures and answer the following questions about each.
1) What story is this character a part of? What role does it have in the story?
2) What might the character symbolize?
3) How does the inclusion of this character impact the story?
4) How does the narrator feel about this character? Do you think the narrator believes it is real or imaginary?
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