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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Chen Ling call Auntie Yee?
(a) Second mother.
(b) Sister.
(c) Mother.
(d) Friend.

2. What did Ming and Chen Ling wear to their hairdressing ceremony?
(a) Black skirt and white shirt.
(b) Red dresses.
(c) Long silk gowns.
(d) White pants and a blue shirt.

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

4. What happened with the year's harvest when Pei was young?
(a) It was poor.
(b) Abundant.
(c) A good year.
(d) Enough to support the whole family for a year.

5. Where does Su-lung live?
(a) At the boarding house with Pei.
(b) Hotel.
(c) A boarding house across town.
(d) At home with her family.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Pei say about her reflection after she has had her bangs cut?

2. Where are Ming and Chen Ling moving to?

3. How does Pei feel when she first enters the silk factory's open room?

4. Whose family is from Fukien?

5. Who said "It was as if she had been born an empty box, only to be filled by their desires" in Chapter 7?

(see the answer key)

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