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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What color gown is the bride wearing in Chapter 10?
(a) Blue.
(b) Red.
(c) Ivory.
(d) White.

4. Where has Moi always had her room in the girls' house?
(a) A bedroom on the second floor.
(b) On a cot in the far end of the kitchen.
(c) In the attic.
(d) Next to Auntie Yee's bedroom.

5. What does Wong Tai ask her son Ho Yung to make sure is delivered on the day of the marriage ceremony?
(a) Sugar candies.
(b) Chicken casserole.
(c) Roast pig.
(d) Wine.

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

7. What is the weather when Ji Shen appears at the girls' house one evening?
(a) Snowing.
(b) Hot and dry.
(c) Cold.
(d) Rainy and windy.

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

9. How does Yu-sung feel after Pei and Lin have said good-bye and leave?
(a) Happy.
(b) Unafraid.
(c) Empty.
(d) Delighted.

10. What does Lin tell Pei about Moi's behavior in Chapter 16?
(a) She forgets to cook the meals.
(b) She is staying out too late at night.
(c) She is spoiling the girls.
(d) She is frightening the girls.

11. When Moi hears something hit the back door in Chapter 17, what does she think is outside?
(a) Rats.
(b) Dogs.
(c) Racoon.
(d) Cats.

12. Why were some factory workers getting sick in Chapter 11?
(a) From the drinking water.
(b) Fatigue and bad ventilation.
(c) They all ate the same bad food.
(d) The flu was going around Yung Kee.

13. How many workers gathered at the sisters' home the night before the protest?
(a) Seventy-five.
(b) Two hundred.
(c) Over a hundred.
(d) Fifty.

14. What gift does Yu-sung give Pei when she visits with Lin?
(a) Fish.
(b) Silk painting of five birds.
(c) Earrings.
(d) Jade necklace.

15. 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 cut mulberry bushes.
(c) To his ponds.
(d) To lie down on the bed.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Pei see from the window of Lin's bedroom in Canton as she looks out into the garden?

2. What does the large shipment mean for the silk factory after New Year's in Chapter 16?

3. What was in the letter that Pei received from her village?

4. How does Yu-sung describe Pei when she returns to her parents' home?

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

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