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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. How doid Mantze charm the Third Mistress?
(a) Mantze reads to her.
(b) Mantze tells her she wants to be with her.
(c) Mantze brushes her hair.
(d) Mantze cleans her room.

2. What did Lao do when Mantze is 15?
(a) Divorced her husband.
(b) Left the home of her employer.
(c) Moved Mantze out of her school.
(d) Kept Mantze's new job.

3. How many wives did Chang the Chen T'ai have?
(a) Three.
(b) Four.
(c) One.
(d) Two.

4. What was Ch'ien Lao-yeh's house like?
(a) Small but pretty.
(b) Infested with bugs.
(c) Huge with hundreds living there.
(d) Creepy with weird noises.

5. In 1901, what happened to Lao?
(a) She lost her job.
(b) She got hurt at work.
(c) She was evicted from her home.
(d) She gave birth to another daughter.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Liu Ma become Lao's "sworn mother"?

2. What describes Mantze's marriage?

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

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

5. What did Lao and her husband do for Mantze's husband?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Lao arrange Mantze's future?

2. What did Lao realize while she was at Ch'ien Lao-yeh's house?

3. How did Lao help the master with the mistresses during a fight?

4. How did Liu Ma help Lao?

5. How did Mantze's second daughter and Lao's son grow up together?

6. How did Lao and her husband's relationship change in 1899?

7. How did Lao's life with the military officials begin?

8. How did Lao feel about her overall life with Major Liu?

9. What happened the day a shaman arrived at Chang the Chen T'ai's house?

10. How was Lao's life with Chang the Chen T'ai?

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