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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mei-li discover dead in her basin at the silk factory?
(a) Bird.
(b) Mouse.
(c) Rat.
(d) Cockroach.

2. What does Mei-li say about Hong's hands?
(a) They are cut up.
(b) The are short and stubby.
(c) They are the hands of a scholar.
(d) He is missing his left pinky.

3. Where did Lin go before the hairdressing ceremony?
(a) To the library.
(b) On an errand for Auntie Yee.
(c) To see her mother.
(d) To work at the silk factory.

4. Why were the girls given a day off from the silk factory at the beginning of Chapter 6?
(a) They are waiting for a new shipment of cocoons.
(b) The machines are broken.
(c) It is their yearly day off.
(d) Chung was feeling generous.

5. What is the ballad of Kuan Yin?
(a) Chinese history.
(b) Literature about making silk.
(c) Story about the goddess of mercy.
(d) A story about a waterfall.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose family is from Fukien?

2. What injures Ming in Chapter 4?

3. How old was Auntie Yee when she was given to the silk work?

4. What did many people disapprove of about the way Lin's father dressed?

5. What time do the girls arrive to work at the silk factory?

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