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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lin offer Pei when she wakes up before the evening meal?
(a) Kindness and comfort.
(b) To call her mother.
(c) Coffee.
(d) Tea.

2. Where does Yu-sung go after Pei and Lin have left her house?
(a) Down to the groves.
(b) Temple.
(c) Tea house.
(d) Village.

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

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

5. What is one object that Pei collects for herself in Chapter 7?
(a) Silk cushion the color of the sky.
(b) Pear.
(c) Stone shaped like a giraffe.
(d) Dried flowers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color uniforms do the Chinese soldiers wear at the docks in Canton?

2. What stench does Pei find almost unbearable while at Ho Chee's wedding banquet?

3. What does the cocoon feel like that Pei picks up from the spinning table on her first day at the factory?

4. What does Moi say when Auntie Yee tells her the weather has cleared?

5. Who does Pei talk about finding after she returns to the silk factory?

(see the answer key)

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