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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are Lin's brothers wearing when they greet Pei and Lin?
(a) Dark suits with starched white collars.
(b) White pants and shirts.
(c) Long silk robes.
(d) Red shirts.

2. What does Lin suggest that she and Pei do at the start of the New Year's?
(a) Start their own silk factory.
(b) Hire a car to take them to work.
(c) Open a dance studio.
(d) Take a trip to the country.

3. When Pei goes back to her family's farm, what color does she describe the soil as?
(a) Brown.
(b) Brownish-orange.
(c) Black.
(d) Rust.

4. What does Chung throw down in anger after talking to the women in the factory in Chapter 17?
(a) Gloves.
(b) Book.
(c) Food.
(d) Handkerchief.

5. What stench does Pei find almost unbearable while at Ho Chee's wedding banquet?
(a) Cooking fish.
(b) Cigar smoke.
(c) Opium.
(d) Eggs.

6. When Chen Ling is summoned to Auntie Yee's beside, how has her illness progressed?
(a) She is coughing up blood.
(b) She can't see.
(c) She has pnuemonia.
(d) Her entire leg is swollen.

7. How long is the list of demands that comes from the secret meeting?
(a) One page.
(b) Six pages.
(c) Two pages.
(d) Three pages.

8. Who does Auntie Yee dream of the night she dies?
(a) Her brother Chan.
(b) Working in the silk factory.
(c) Flying like a white bird.
(d) Sailing on the Pearl River.

9. What does Pei say about Ho Yung, Lin's youngest brother?
(a) He most closely resembles Lin.
(b) Auntie Yee would like him.
(c) He likes to eat a lot.
(d) He is a flirt.

10. What does Mui call Lin?
(a) Little girl.
(b) Missy.
(c) Dear one.
(d) Lady.

11. Who does Pei talk about finding after she returns to the silk factory?
(a) Chan.
(b) Lau Chen.
(c) Li.
(d) Hulan.

12. Who spreads the word about a secret meeting of the head silk workers?
(a) Lin.
(b) Chen Ling.
(c) Sui Ying.
(d) Pei.

13. How does Pei feel once she sees the village of her youth again?
(a) Fear.
(b) Filled with bad memories.
(c) Resentful.
(d) Excited like a child.

14. What does Lin write to her brother Ho Yung about in Chapter 18?
(a) Her mother.
(b) About finding her an apartment.
(c) For money.
(d) A place on the boat for Ji Shen.

15. How does Lin die?
(a) From illness.
(b) Drowns when a boat overturns.
(c) Food posioning.
(d) A fire at the factory.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Chung insist the factory workers do to make up for lost revenue in Chapter 11?

2. When one girl dies, what are the other factory workers encouraged to do?

3. What does Chung arrive in during the strike?

4. Who is Lau Chen?

5. What is Moi saving up in jars in Chapter 16?

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