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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Pei feel when she first enters the silk factory's open room?
(a) As if she were suffocating.
(b) Inspired.
(c) Happy.
(d) Awed.

2. What are the physical characteristics of the tribe that Pao descends from?
(a) Tall with nice cheekbones.
(b) Tall with flat facial features.
(c) Short with large noses.
(d) Average height with bushy eyebrows.

3. Who did Pao consult for advice about his children?
(a) Pei.
(b) Yu-Sung.
(c) Fortune teller.
(d) Neighbor.

4. Who stays at Auntie Yee's boarding house?
(a) Restaurant workers.
(b) Fortune tellers.
(c) Wayward boys.
(d) Silk girls.

5. What does Pei say about her reflection after she has had her bangs cut?
(a) The hair cutter did a good job.
(b) She had always wanted bangs.
(c) She looks more beautiful.
(d) She looks like all the other girls.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Pei waiting impatiently for her mother at the beginning of the novel?

2. What kind of flowers did Pei pick while walking with her father in Chapter 2?

3. Who did Auntie Yee marry when she was twelve?

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

5. Where is Pei left in Chapter 2?

(see the answer key)

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