View a FREE sample

This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Lin's mother send to her in Chapter 8?
(a) Jewelry.
(b) Family heirloom.
(c) Clothes.
(d) Fruit and lucky money.

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

3. What did Auntie Yee get in the habit of doing in Chapter 5?
(a) Sweeping the front porch.
(b) Being critical of the girls.
(c) Opening the front door and checking the sky.
(d) Sleeping late.

4. What does Yu-sung see when she looks at Pei as a young girl?
(a) Her husband's features and her lively spirit.
(b) Her husband's personality.
(c) The features of her mother.
(d) Her own face.

5. Why is Pei waiting impatiently for her mother at the beginning of the novel?
(a) She has to finish reading a novel.
(b) She needs to help her husband in the fields.
(c) Her mother is having a baby.
(d) She is cooking dinner.

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

7. Whose family is from Fukien?
(a) Lin's.
(b) Mei-li's.
(c) Su-lung's.
(d) Pei's.

8. What is Pei's favorite place at the sisters' house?
(a) Garden.
(b) Kitchen.
(c) Reading room.
(d) Bedroom.

9. Who did the sisters' house once belong to?
(a) Chung.
(b) Lin's family.
(c) Wealthy family from Canton.
(d) Auntie Yee.

10. Who cuts Pei's bangs in Chapter 2?
(a) Auntie Yee.
(b) Mei-li.
(c) Pei.
(d) Lin.

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

12. What does Lin tell Pei they must start considering about their futures?
(a) Vacation plans.
(b) Financial planning.
(c) Getting promotions at work.
(d) Going to the university.

13. What time do the girls arrive to work at the silk factory?
(a) 5:30 am.
(b) 7:00 am.
(c) 8:00 am.
(d) 8:30 am.

14. What does Kung Ma look like?
(a) Short and heavyset, with blond hair.
(b) Older, gray-haired.
(c) Tall and thin, with red hair.
(d) Younger, black-haired.

15. What does Pao decide about Pei's future?
(a) Arrange a marriage as quickly as possible.
(b) To have her work in a silk factory.
(c) Keep her home until she is older.
(d) Have her work at a neighbor's home.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Auntie Yee feel unsettled in Chapter 5?

2. What does Kung Ma say about Pei's appearance when she first meets her?

3. What did Chen Ling's father send to her hairdressing ceremony?

4. Who are Sui Ying and Lee Moi?

5. What is the red-and-black book for that Kung Ma keeps in the top drawer of her bureau?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 489 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample