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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Pao go when he feels tears burning in his eyes at the end of Chapter 14?
(a) To the kitchen to make dinner.
(b) To his ponds.
(c) To cut mulberry bushes.
(d) To lie down on the bed.

2. What does Pei say about marriage?
(a) She can't get married because she doesn't love anyone enough.
(b) She can move into the sisters' house with Lin if she doesn't marry.
(c) Marriage is a. way to stop working at the silk factory
(d) Marriage is the one goal she has.

3. What is Moi burning in the house when Auntie Yee is sick?
(a) Old clothes.
(b) Incense.
(c) Newspaper.
(d) Dinner.

4. How can Pei tell a good cocoon from a bad one?
(a) Texture and firmness of its shell.
(b) Just by sight.
(c) Whether it has growths on it.
(d) Color.

5. What did Yu-sung discover about Li when she returned for her third day visit after her marriage?
(a) She has the chicken pox.
(b) She has a nervous condition.
(c) She refuses to go back to her husband.
(d) Her husband beat her.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mei-li say about Hong's hands?

2. What does Mei-li's father want her to do?

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

4. Who does Auntie Yee dream of the night she dies?

5. Who goes swimming in the cold pond at the end of Chapter 3?

(see the answer key)

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