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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. The child in this parable is __________________.
(a) A teenager
(b) A seven-year-old boy
(c) Seven-years-old
(d) A ten-year-old girl
2. The token saved from the swan carries with it ________________________________.
(a) A promise that she would learn English
(b) All the woman's good intentions
(c) A fortune in memories
(d) All the luck the woman did not have in China
3. When Teresa and her family get over their anger, and hug and kiss, Lena ______________________________________.
(a) Tells her father Teresa went down the fire escape
(b) Begins to have hope for her own life
(c) Is angry that she had to witness the fight
(d) Wishes her mother would get angry
4. In this parable, the corner represents ________________________________.
(a) The turning point for the family
(b) The mother's skewed anxiety
(c) The line between safety and danger
(d) The growth process of the child
5. An-Mei's mother left her behind in order to _____________________________________________.
(a) Have her raised by a woman who was more stable
(b) Save her from her new husband's disregard
(c) Save An-Mei from her own humiliated station in life
(d) Let her have a life with her younger brother
6. Lindo became aware of who she really was when ________________________________.
(a) She went to the river and slept
(b) She saw herself on her wedding day
(c) She first saw Tyan-yu
(d) Concentrated on becoming pregnant
7. The event that clouds An-Mei's early memory of her mother was _________________________________________________.
(a) She fell as she ran toward her mother
(b) Her aunt slapped her face
(c) She was severely burned as her mother was leaving
(d) She becomes convinced her that her mother was dead
8. As national chess champion, Waverly is touted as __________________________.
(a) The Great American Hope
(b) The funeral parlor's mascot
(c) A poor child from Chinatown
(d) Bobby Fischer's best friend
9. An-Mei Hsu grew up with ___________________________________.
(a) Her grandmother and her little brother
(b) Her father and her little brother
(c) Her auntie and uncle
(d) Her mother and father
10. An-Mei's mother shows up ___________________________.
(a) To retrieve An-Mei and her brother
(b) To help her mother in her illness
(c) To reconcile with her children
(d) To challenge An-Mei's aunt
11. The child finally decides to ______________________.
(a) Be a better child
(b) Try a different route
(c) Run away from home
(d) Defy the mother
12. When Lena's mother speaks to her in Chinese, Lena ____________________________________.
(a) Writes down everything and translates it later
(b) Tries to pretend she does not understand
(c) Translates for her father accuratey and succinctly
(d) Does not repeat some of what her mother says
13. Lindo was forced to live with her future in-laws because ______________________________________.
(a) She was too old to stay at home
(b) Her family disowned her
(c) A flood wiped our her family's home
(d) Her dowry had gotten large enough
14. In order to promote her fertility, Lindo was given ________________________.
(a) Strong backrubs
(b) Scissors and sewing needles
(c) Gold and jewelry
(d) Polished dowry furniture
15. The Hsu family had four sons and ______________________.
(a) Three daughters
(b) Four daughters
(c) One daughter
(d) Two daughters
Short Answer Questions
1. The clothes Ying-Ying wears for the Moon Festival are ________________________.
2. Amah is Ying-Ying's ___________.
3. The woman intends to learn in America how to __________________________________.
4. In Chinese culture, respect for one's ancestors is called ___________.
5. The symbolic burning of the Five Evils was actually ___________________________.
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