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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 is the name of the river that Mei-li walks to after her fight with Hong?
(a) Narrow.
(b) Green.
(c) Pearl.
(d) Long.

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

3. Who is Chung?
(a) Restaurant chef.
(b) Owner of the factory.
(c) Guard.
(d) Neighbor.

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

5. Where did Sui Ying's husband go after the flood?
(a) Canton.
(b) Overseas to look for work.
(c) Back to his family's farm.
(d) Japan.

Short Answer Questions

1. What makes Pei speechless when she enters the large hall of the sisters' house?

2. What was Pei's favorite food when she was young that she ate on special occasions?

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

4. What big storm occurs in Chapter 4?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Lin's mother.

2. How does Auntie Yee become a worker for the silk factory?

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

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

5. How is Mei-li's body discovered?

6. What was Kung Ma's marriage like?

7. Describe the hairdressing ceremony.

8. What are the working conditions at the silk factory?

9. What does Mei-li do when Hong tells her he doesn't love her?

10. What does Pei think about the sampans crossing the river as she rests with her father on the riverbank?

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