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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. How does Cheuh-min's running make Cheuh-hsin feel?

2. What does Cheuh-hsin tell Mei when he sees her in the garden?

3. Why does Jui-cheuh have to go live outside the city gates until her child is born?

4. Who tells Ming-Feng that she is to become Master Feng's concubine?

5. What does a writer from Peking try to convince Chinese youths to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Jui-cheuh seem to respond to Mei initially?

2. How does the family feel the night that fighting breaks out around the city?

3. What are Master Kao's last dying words to his grandsons?

4. What is Cheuh-min's response to his arranged marriage?

5. Describe the boat ride the cousins are on in Chapter 19.

6. Because of their fear of the curse, what to the women pressure Cheuh-hsin to do and how does his wife feel about this?

7. What do Cheuh-hsin and Mei talk about while in the garden at the Kao compound?

8. Why do two policemen come to Cheuh-hui's magazine office?

9. Why are the women scared of the curse of the blood-glow?

10. What do the superstitious family members do to try and rid Master Kao of his illness?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Please describe the religion setting in China at the time this story takes place. What role, if any, does religion play in the story and in the lives of some of the main characters. Do you think that religion was portrayed negatively, positively, or objectively in this story?

Essay Topic 2

Please choose one major theme in the story "Family" to identify and outline. How is this theme seen throughout the novel? Who in the novel does this theme affect? Was this theme central to the novel or could it have stood without this theme?

Essay Topic 3

Please choose on character to analyze using the five categories studied in your daily lessons.

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