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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Rich Schields makes several mistakes at dinner, the worst being ___________________________________.
(a) He brings wine to people who do not own wineglasses
(b) He spills food
(c) He drinks too much wine
(d) He accidentally insults Lindo's cooking

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

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

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

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

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

7. The characters in this parable are ______________________________.
(a) Rose and her mother
(b) Waverly and her mother
(c) Not yet known to the reader
(d) June Woo and her mother

8. Ted makes the assumption that ______________________-.
(a) Rose wants the divorce
(b) He will have to pay alimony
(c) Rose will be disagreeable
(d) He will get the house

9. What is the supposed effect of a mirror at the foot of the bed?
(a) Things in the marriage will turn backward
(b) Marriage happiness will bounce back
(c) The mirror will reflect the wrong way
(d) It is bad luck to be able to see your partner while in bed

10. In the mirror, the mother sees ______________________________.
(a) A new armoire
(b) Her daughter and husband happy
(c) Her future grandchild's face
(d) Her future grandchild on her lap

11. Rich's reaction to his unintended insults toward Lindo was _________________________________________.
(a) He was loyal to Waverly
(b) He thinks they do not like him
(c) He never realized he had done anything wrong
(d) He admitted his bleak failure

12. Rose finds the imagery of Ted doing monkey business __________________.
(a) Humorous
(b) Outrageous
(c) Disgusting
(d) Unnerving

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

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

15. Lena and Harold are both _________________.
(a) Building designers
(b) Contractors
(c) Realtors
(d) Architects

Short Answer Questions

1. Clifford St. Clair's gifts to Ying-Ying were ___________________________.

2. The vase that breaks in the bedroom symbolizes _____________________________.

3. The grandmother wonders aloud whether ____________________________________________.

4. The grandmother admits that she ______________________________-.

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

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