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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. Who is the father of Maxine's aunt's baby?
2. What is the first thing the girl has to learn to do?
3. Why does Maxine feel she is punishing her aunt?
4. What happens to Maxine's aunt the night her baby is due?
5. In the white crane boxing story, what does the spirit of the white crane later become?
Short Essay Questions
1. What are some of the "battles" the narrator feels she must face as a woman warrior in modern society? Name at least two.
2. What bothers the narrator the most about the mentally retarded man who comes and sits in the laundry?
3. How does Moon Orchid's husband react when he sees her?
4. Why are the Chinese afraid of the ghosts of people who died in the manner of the narrator's aunt?
5. 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?
6. Why do you think the narrator feels that her American success is sometimes useless? Give an example to support your position.
7. What did the narrator's term "FOBs" stand for?
8. How does Moon Orchid die?
9. How do Brave Orchid and Moon Orchid trick Moon Orchid's husband into see them?
10. As an adult, why does the narrator refuse to cook, clean, or wash dishes?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Beyond the title of the novel, the concept of a women warrior is repeated throughout the book.
Part 1) Explain the literal meaning behind the term "woman warrior" and where you are first introduced to it in the novel.
Part 2) Describe at least three examples in which the narrator may be viewed as a woman warrior.
Part 3) Explain the figurative meaning behind the term "woman warrior" and how it may be interpreted to reflect a woman in the narrator's setting.
Essay Topic 2
Why do you think the narrator had trouble speaking in school? Why do you think she was able to overcome this difficulty later in life? How does the end of the novel relate to the difficulties she had speaking as a child?
Essay Topic 3
Throughout the novel, the narrator comes into conflict with many different characters. Choose two of these conflicts and describe them in detail, answering the following questions:
1) With whom does the narrator have the conflict?
2) What is the conflict about?
3) How is the conflict resolved?
4) What does the narrator learn from the conflict/how does it relate to her story as a whole?
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