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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Suyuan Woo compares Waverly to a crab, saying she _________________________________________.
(a) Is always moving sideways and crooked
(b) She is without feelings, like the crab
(c) Her claws are sharp but slow, like the crab
(d) She is missing something, like the crab's leg

2. An-Mei finds that in Tientsin, she has a __________________.
(a) New mother
(b) New husband
(c) Brother
(d) Cousins

3. An-Mei's mother was not always a fourth wife, but was once a _______________________.
(a) Model in Tientsin
(b) Second wife of a villager
(c) First wife of a poor servant
(d) First wife of a scholar

4. Why did Lena feel she caused Arnold's death?
(a) She intended for him to die
(b) She ate all of her rice
(c) She compared him to lepers
(d) Because she wounded him emotionally

5. The grandmother wonders aloud whether ____________________________________________.
(a) The baby has come from a royal place with Buddha
(b) She sees negative things in others because she has them herself
(c) She is truly innocent or holds many secrets inside
(d) The baby is laughing at her or with her

6. The sisters in China were told their mother was dead by __________________.
(a) A telegram from Jing-Mei's father
(b) A letter from Auntie Lindo
(c) Jing-Mei
(d) A phone call from Auntie An-Mei

7. Ying-Ying feels that her daughter's home _________________________.
(a) Is too fancy
(b) Has no life in it
(c) Is boring and dull
(d) Is cold and unfriendly

8. The grandmother imagines the baby in this parable to be ________________________.
(a) Buddah's granddaughter
(b) Syi Wang Mu
(c) Hwai dungsyi
(d) Empress of China

9. Why did Lena hate Arnold so much?
(a) He was cruel to her
(b) He wanted to be her husband
(c) He was the cause of her eating problem
(d) He frightened her

10. Ying-Ying feels that aborting her baby was ______________________.
(a) An immature act
(b) An act of strength
(c) A weak moment
(d) A mortal sin

11. Ying-Ying thinks that if she cuts her spirit loose, ______________________________________.
(a) She will atone for her daughter's sins
(b) Her pain will will meld and become one with her daughter's
(c) Her mistakes will all be forgiven
(d) Her tiger nature will enter her daughter

12. An-Mei's mother makes life in Tientsin sound __________________________________.
(a) A dangerous tourist town
(b) Abundant and exciting
(c) Frightening and mysterious
(d) A city filled with foreigners

13. Lindo is ashamed that Waverly _________________________.
(a) Is not proud of her
(b) Looks so much like her
(c) Thinks she needs to have her hair done
(d) Does not like her purple tinted hair

14. Jing-Mei's paternal aunt and her father speak ____________________.
(a) English
(b) Sechuan
(c) The Cantonese dialect
(d) The Mandarin dialect

15. How did Lena's eating problem manifest itself?
(a) Her hatred consumed her
(b) Her skin broke out like leprosy
(c) Her mother's sack lunches made her sick
(d) She became anorexic

Short Answer Questions

1. The pastor, Wing, was a __________________________-.

2. For dinner, Jing-mei and Canning share with his relatives ____________________________.

3. Lindo's oldest son, Winston, ___________________________.

4. Jing-Mei Woo travels to China with ____________________-.

5. Ted makes the assumption that ______________________-.

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