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

2. What stench does Pei find almost unbearable while at Ho Chee's wedding banquet?
(a) Cigar smoke.
(b) Cooking fish.
(c) Opium.
(d) Eggs.

3. Where does Pao go when he feels tears burning in his eyes at the end of Chapter 14?
(a) To cut mulberry bushes.
(b) To lie down on the bed.
(c) To his ponds.
(d) To the kitchen to make dinner.

4. What was in the letter that Pei received from her village?
(a) News about the death of her mother.
(b) News about Li's whereabouts.
(c) An invitation to a family celebration.
(d) News about her father's health.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Pei and Lin tell the sedan carriers to wait while they walk to Pei's family home?

2. Who accompanies Pei home after Ho Chee's wedding banquet?

3. When Pei and Lin are traveling to the countryside, why does Pei decide not to ride in the sedan chair Lin has hired?

4. What does Pei promise Ji Shen in Chapter 18?

5. When one girl dies, what are the other factory workers encouraged to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. Are the working conditions deteriorating at the factory in Chapter 11?

2. Why does Wong Tai seat Pei at a table with foreigners during Ho Chee's wedding banquet?

3. What is Lin's homecoming like?

4. Is Yu-sung happy to see Pei?

5. How do the girls finally discover that Auntie Yee is sick?

6. What does Lin do when the fire starts in the factory?

7. What does Pei dream about her mother after she has died?

8. What is Yu-sung's physical state?

9. Why is Moi keeping everyone away from Auntie Yee's bedroom?

10. How does Chen Ling inspire the workers to strike?

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