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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 do Mei and the other girls get to their classrooms?

2. In Chapter 7, how many weeks does Mei have to train to pretend to be a student?

3. When does Secretary Sun arrive in Chapter 1?

4. Where does Mei trace the Chairman's name into her skin with a pencil in Chapter 5?

5. In Chapter 7, how long has it been since Mei arrived at the Lake Palaces?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did the Chairman and a friend to on one summer break from school?

2. Where did the Chairman have a chance to study and learn how to build factories, and why did he not go?

3. What does Mei learn about the daughter of the Chairman and Madame?

4. What do Busy Shan and Mei do to Midnight Chang's clothes?

5. In Chapter 3, what are Mei's thoughts when she finally gets to bed?

6. How does Mei feel when she wears her first pair of high-heeled shoes in Chapter 3?

7. When does the Chairman die, and how do the people of Chinatown in San Francisco respond?

8. In Chapter 8, what do the Chairman's quarters look like?

9. In Chapter 4, how does Mei help Midnight Chang?

10. What does the dance troupe perform and where?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The climax in a novel is the highest point of tension and a turning point. What is the climax of the book and why is that incident the climax?

Essay Topic 2

There is conflict between the girls in the troupe. Why is there conflict between the girls in the troupe? What are they all competing for?

Essay Topic 3

Mei matures and changes in Forbidden City. Is her story a Bildungsroman or a coming-of-age story?

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