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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the physical characteristics of the tribe that Pao descends from?
(a) Tall with flat facial features.
(b) Average height with bushy eyebrows.
(c) Short with large noses.
(d) Tall with nice cheekbones.

2. How was Lin educated as a child?
(a) Public school.
(b) Boarding school.
(c) Her mother.
(d) Private tutor.

3. How can Pei tell a good cocoon from a bad one?
(a) Texture and firmness of its shell.
(b) Color.
(c) Whether it has growths on it.
(d) Just by sight.

4. In Chapter 9, who is said to bathe infrequently, drink expensive liquor, and eat large slabs of bloody beef?
(a) Chung.
(b) Yung Kee's wealthy families.
(c) Cantonese men.
(d) The white devils.

5. Who stays at Auntie Yee's boarding house?
(a) Restaurant workers.
(b) Silk girls.
(c) Fortune tellers.
(d) Wayward boys.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many sets of clothes did Pei have growing up?

2. Where did Sui Ying's husband go after the flood?

3. What did the male managers shout as they waved their sticks at the working girls in the silk factory?

4. What color uniforms do the Chinese soldiers wear at the docks in Canton?

5. How many hours does it take Pei and Lin to travel to Canton on the boat?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Pei's reaction to the silk factory?

2. Describe the hairdressing ceremony.

3. Why does Yu-sung feel she has lost all her children?

4. Describe Pei's experience on the boat to Canton with Lin.

5. What success does Pei have as a silk girl?

6. What does Auntie Yee remember about Chan?

7. What is the relationship between Moi and Auntie Yee?

8. Why does Mei-li feel comforted by the Pearl River?

9. Who is Sui Ying?

10. How does Pei feel she is treated differently after her hairdressing ceremony?

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