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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Pao sees Pei walking toward the pond when she returns home, how does he describe his daughter's appearance?
(a) Pretty with red hair.
(b) Bedraggled.
(c) Tall and quite beautiful.
(d) Short like her mother.

2. What is Moi burning in the house when Auntie Yee is sick?
(a) Old clothes.
(b) Newspaper.
(c) Incense.
(d) Dinner.

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

4. What advantage does Chung think he has over the factory workers when they are making up for lost revenue?
(a) He can give them bolts of silk.
(b) They like him.
(c) He knows their parents.
(d) He will fire them if they complain.

5. What city are Pei and Lin planning to move to?
(a) Hong Kong.
(b) Nanking.
(c) Canton.
(d) Shanghai.

6. What is Moi saving up in jars in Chapter 16?
(a) Lucky money.
(b) Buttons.
(c) Food.
(d) Stones.

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

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

9. When one girl dies, what are the other factory workers encouraged to do?
(a) To be quiet and get back to work.
(b) Stop complaining.
(c) Be better behaved.
(d) Step forward in protest.

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

11. Who is Mui?
(a) Lin's cousin.
(b) Lin's family's servant.
(c) Neighbor.
(d) Father's old assistant.

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

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

14. Where do Pei and Lin tell the sedan carriers to wait while they walk to Pei's family home?
(a) By the roadside in the sun.
(b) At the tea house in the village.
(c) At a neighbor's barn.
(d) Under the shade of a tree.

15. How long did it take for Pao's fish ponds to restore themselves after Pei went to work for the silk factory?
(a) One season.
(b) Three seasons.
(c) Five seasons.
(d) Ten seasons.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Yu-sung feel after Pei and Lin have said good-bye and leave?

2. What does Wong Tai ask her son Ho Yung to make sure is delivered on the day of the marriage ceremony?

3. What factory girl is killed during the strike?

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

5. Who is the only one who knows that Auntie Yee is sick in Chapter 12?

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