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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Joy and Sorrow.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lily help Snow Flower do after she learns of her family's misfortune?
(a) Learn to become a matchmaker.
(b) Clean Snow Flower's house.
(c) Rent a room in another village.
(d) Teach her mother to garden.

2. What does Third Sister die from?
(a) Drowning.
(b) Malaria.
(c) Flu.
(d) Blood poisoning.

3. What was the ideal length of a bound foot for a girl?
(a) Twenty centimeters.
(b) Seven centimeters.
(c) Fifteen centimeters.
(d) Twenty-five centimeters.

4. How old is Lily when she has her first child?
(a) Seventeen.
(b) Twenty-two.
(c) Nineteen.
(d) Twenty.

5. Why does Snow Flower become a vegetarian?
(a) Meat is kept for the men in the family.
(b) Because she had to help with pig slaughtering.
(c) Meat makes her feel too heavy.
(d) Vegtables are what they have to eat.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Snow Flower say saved her family?

2. Who wrote "Two nightingales sing in the darkness" in a nu shu letter in "Love"?

3. Why does Lily sweep three times a day in her sleeping chamber?

4. Who does Lily say is the most important person she must build a relationship with in her married life?

5. What does Snow Flower teach Lily through her example when they are at the Temple of Gupo?

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