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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the hairstyle that Auntie Yee puts Chen Ling's hair in for the hairdressing ceremony?

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

3. What color armbands did the silk girls wear the day of Mei-li's burial?

4. What is the name of the river that Mei-li walks to after her fight with Hong?

5. Whose family is from Fukien?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Mei-li react when Pei tells her it is time to go to the Chen Ling and Ming's banquet?

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

3. What does Pei learn about from Sui Ying?

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

5. How does Yu-sung describe Pao's home after she is married?

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

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

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

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

10. How does Pei react when her father leaves her at Auntie Yee's house?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Pao come to the decision to send his daughter Pei to the silk factory? What does the fortune-teller say that convinces him to make this decision? How does he feel later about this decision?

Essay Topic 2

How did Moi come to live in the girls' house? What is her role there? How does she show her respect and admiration for Auntie Yee?

Essay Topic 3

How are rituals used in this novel as part of ceremonies? Do they help you understand the Chinese culture of this time period? How so?

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