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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Lily describe Snow Flower's eldest child while they are on the mountain?

2. What does Lotus deliver to Lily from Snow Flower during the Midi-Autumn Festival?

3. What does Lily teach Peony?

4. Who comes to Lily's door asking her to go to Snow Flower because she is dying?

5. Where does Lily go at the beginning of "Into the Mountains"?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe why Lily lets her son leave the upstairs chamber.

2. What do Lily and her mother fight about when Lily returns home after Snow Flower's marriage?

3. How does Lily try to help Snow Flower on her deathbed?

4. Are Snow Flower and Lily's husbands supportive of their laotong friendship after the rebellion?

5. Describe the Letter of Vituperation.

6. Describe Lily's reunion with her husband after she comes down from the mountain.

7. Describe Snow Flower's second son.

8. How does Snow Flower's husband react when their second son dies from the cold?

9. What do the sworn sisters tell Lily about Snow Flower?

10. What does Lily do to shield her children from the typhoid epidemic?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the challenges of the refugees as they climb the mountain. What does Lily see and hear that gives you a sense of her experience? In what way is the Butcher both a savior and a destroyer in this location?

Essay Topic 2

Describe Lily in her role as a mother. How does she show love toward her children? Is she similar to her own mother in any way?

Essay Topic 3

What does nu shu represent in Lily's life? Discuss its uses and the way it broadens Lily's world. How is writing a way for her voice to be heard?

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