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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What gift do Pearl and Phil give Bao-bao and Mimi?
(a) Wine glasses.
(b) Blender.
(c) Dishes.
(d) Glass martini set.

2. What color is the cloth that Winnie gives to Hulan after she convinces Jiaguo not to charge Wen Fu for driving the jeep without permission?
(a) Peach-colored.
(b) Yellow.
(c) Green.
(d) Blue.

3. What do the Red Cross send to the dance in Chapter 18?
(a) Bandages.
(b) Ice cream.
(c) Christmas tree.
(d) Magazines.

4. What does Danru present to Old Aunt when he and his mother visit her after the war has ended?
(a) Drawing.
(b) Ginseng root.
(c) Candy.
(d) Flowers.

5. Who throws a cup of tea at an ancient painting when the Japanese visit him at his home?
(a) Winnie's father.
(b) Peanut's father.
(c) Wen Fu.
(d) Jiaguo.

6. What does the name Danu mean?
(a) Despair.
(b) Connection.
(c) Nonchalance.
(d) Poverty.

7. What job does Little Yu's mother have at the rooming house?
(a) Reads aloud to the women
(b) Draws pictures.
(c) Painter.
(d) Cook.

8. When Hulan receives a letter from Jiaguo while she's living in Kunming, who reads it to her?
(a) Mr. Ma.
(b) Aunt Du.
(c) Winnie.
(d) Wen Fu.

9. In Chapter 15, who destroys the hospital kitchen in anger because they won't serve him?
(a) Wen Fu.
(b) Gan.
(c) Jiaguo.
(d) Mr. Lui.

10. Why does Wen Fu have an accident when he is driving the stolen jeep?
(a) He crashes into a truck.
(b) He is driving too fast.
(c) His gas tank explodes.
(d) The jeep loses brake power.

11. Who tells Winnie that Min is a sister of a pilot friend who has nowhere to stay?
(a) Jiaguo.
(b) Winnie.
(c) Wen Fu.
(d) Hulan.

12. What does Winnie say about Wen Fu after he has men ransack the lawyer's office and tear up the divorce papers?
(a) She thinks he is a gangster.
(b) He forgets to water the plants.
(c) He's joking.
(d) He's good to her.

13. How does Winnie get her airplane tickets back from Wen Fu?
(a) Knocks him out.
(b) Blinds him with mace.
(c) Threatens to shoot him.
(d) Grabs them when he's not looking.

14. Who does Jimmy Louie ask to dance?
(a) Donna.
(b) Nancy.
(c) Helen.
(d) Winnie.

15. Who is Yiku?
(a) A shopkeeper's daughter.
(b) Winnie and Wen Fu's second child.
(c) Hulan and Jiaguo's child.
(d) The servant's name.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who makes a promise to accept life without complaint at the end of Chapter 17?

2. Who is having a second honeymoon in Chapter 26?

3. What does Winnie think that Wen Fu will do to her father if she leaves him?

4. Who is Jimmy Louie?

5. What season is depicted in the ancient scroll that Winnie's father throws tea at?

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