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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Lao's husband do with their youngest daughter?
(a) Beat her.
(b) Sold her.
(c) Put her up for adoption.
(d) Sent her to school.

2. How did Wen Chuan's schooling affect him?
(a) It made him prepared for life.
(b) It made him ill prepared for life.
(c) It provided an opportunity to do opium.
(d) It gave him an inflated ego.

3. From 1870-1881, where did Lao and her family move?
(a) The Northeast corner.
(b) A emporer's castle.
(c) America.
(d) The Chou Wang Temple area.

4. How old was Lao when her father first saw her?
(a) Five.
(b) One.
(c) Two.
(d) Three.

5. How did Lao describe the village of her husband overall?
(a) Extraordinary.
(b) Mythical.
(c) Unclean.
(d) Ordinary.

6. Who is Fats'ai?
(a) Yintze's son.
(b) Lao's brother.
(c) Liu-Yi-tze's cousin's son.
(d) Lao's first child.

7. What do the traditions Lao carried out during the woman's dying days ensure?
(a) That she will not go to the devil.
(b) That she will see her loved ones again.
(c) That she will have a safe and speedy passage.
(d) That she will live again.

8. What did Lao's mother struggle with when she had her own household?
(a) How to buy food.
(b) How to organize.
(c) How to cook well.
(d) How to handle a household.

9. Whom did Fats'ai's mother blame for his death?
(a) Herself.
(b) Liu-Yi-tze.
(c) Lao.
(d) Her employer.

10. How often did Lao visit her parents while she was married?
(a) Once a day.
(b) Never.
(c) Twice a year.
(d) Regulary.

11. What information concerning stories and legends does Lao state about a dog?
(a) A dog cannot be inside a house.
(b) A dog kept her company.
(c) A dog in a courtyard is bad luck.
(d) A dog in a courtyard is good luck.

12. Who is Fats'ai's father?
(a) Yintze's husband.
(b) Liu-Yi-tze.
(c) Lao's father.
(d) Lao never tells the readers.

13. Where did Lao and her family live by?
(a) South Entrance.
(b) North Gate.
(c) Erupting volcanoes.
(d) A traveling group of singers.

14. In the past, what was Lao's family's financial situation?
(a) They never had money.
(b) The family was wealthy.
(c) They earned honest wages.
(d) They always wasted money.

15. How did Yintze's parents react as she left their visits?
(a) Tired.
(b) Annoyed.
(c) Grief-stricken.
(d) Excited.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Lao's sister do when their uncle came for a visit?

2. What happened to Lao in 1881?

3. Whom did Lao often play with at her husband's?

4. What caused Lao's father's business to fail?

5. When Lao returned to the home of her parents while pregnant, what did she plan to do?

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