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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 job does Moi have in Auntie Yee's home?
(a) Cook.
(b) Story teller.
(c) Accountant.
(d) Seamstress.

2. Where does Su-lung live?
(a) A boarding house across town.
(b) Hotel.
(c) At the boarding house with Pei.
(d) At home with her family.

3. What is the funny smell Pei notices when she and Lin approach the sedan carriers in Canton?
(a) Garbage.
(b) Old fish.
(c) Opium.
(d) Dead animals.

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

5. Where did Pei faint in Chapter 2?
(a) Bedroom.
(b) Parlor.
(c) Kitchen.
(d) On the street.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Mei-li feel by the sight of the river and the open space around it?

2. What does Chen Ling call Auntie Yee?

3. Who stays at Auntie Yee's boarding house?

4. Who said "It was as if she had been born an empty box, only to be filled by their desires" in Chapter 7?

5. What were Lin and Pei's assigned duties at the sisters' house?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Is Mei-li willing to accept her father's choice of a husband for her?

4. How does Pei know it is the right decision for her to join the sisterhood with Lin?

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

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

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

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

9. Why is Auntie Yee worrying about Mei-li?

10. Does Pei's mother think girls should be well-educated?

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