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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book Three, Pages 142-174.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lao Say most Chinese families expect of their maids?
(a) Free labor.
(b) For them to live in their homes.
(c) To keep them for life.
(d) For wet-nurses.

2. Why did Liu Ma become Lao's "sworn mother"?
(a) The sworn mother has devious reasons.
(b) The sworn mother knew Lao's birth mother.
(c) Lao needs help with Mantze.
(d) Lao's former mistress wants her to have one.

3. With what did the wife of Lao's husband's cousin help Lao?
(a) Cooking skills.
(b) Housetending.
(c) Patience.
(d) Homesickness.

4. What did Lao do for the old woman who fed her?
(a) Nursed her until her death.
(b) Paid her.
(c) Gave her Lao's mother's leftover medicine.
(d) Tended her garden.

5. Why did Mantze not deliver her child at Lao's home?
(a) Lao's house was too small.
(b) It was tradition that a child not be born in the home of a maternal grandmother.
(c) It was tradition that a child not be born where a duck has flown low.
(d) Lao did not want Mantze there.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Lao do when Mantze is 15?

2. During the New Year's holiday of 1895, where did Lao get temporary work?

3. What information concerning stories and legends does Lao state about a wild goose?

4. What did Mantze learn at Chang the Chen T'ai's house?

5. At Major Liu's house, whom did Lao live with?

(see the answer key)

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