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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Three days of sleeping may have given Rose _________________.
(a) A new strength
(b) A deeper sense of confusion
(c) A break from work
(d) New nightmares about Ted

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The grandmother wonders if the child is laughing because __________________________________.

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

3. The grandmother admits that she ______________________________-.

4. This daughter is tired of her mother's habit of ______________________________.

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Is there a character in this story who might be represented in this parable?

2. Discuss what is meant in this chapter by "double face."

3. How does it affect Jing-Mei to meet her long lost sisters in China?

4. Did Lena's mother knock the table over that shattered the vase in her bedroom?

5. Why does Lena have such a strange financial relationship with Harold?

6. Does Rose grow in this chapter?

7. The fact that June Woo's mother has searched for a lifetime for her two daughters, and then dies before she can see them again, is strongly ironic. How might the story have been different if she had lived to make the trip to China and reunited with her daughters?

8. It becomes more obvious in this chapter the kinds of adults that Jing-Mei and Waverly have grown into. Who is more likable?

9. Ying-Ying's story is vast and complex, and one that her daughter has never known or understood. Why, in this chapter, has she decided to tell Lena everything about her life?

10. Why does Rose's mother say that Rose is without wood?

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