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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. What is Lily's eldest son studying to be in "Into the Clouds"?
2. What did Lily's mother-in-law teach her about a wife's duty to obey?
3. Why does Lily's aunt avoid her during her pregnancy?
4. How does Lily describe her in-laws' home?
5. What does Snow Flower sing at her cousin's Sitting and Singing phase that Lily attends and hears?
Short Essay Questions
1. What do Lily and Snow Flower do while at the Temple of Gupo when they become pregnant?
2. What is Snow Flower's message on the fan that Lotus delivers to Lily during the Mid-Autumn Festival?
3. Describe Lily's son.
4. What do Lily and her mother fight about when Lily returns home after Snow Flower's marriage?
5. How does Snow Flower's husband react when their second son dies from the cold?
6. What helped give the fleeing villagers courage as they sat in the bowl of the mountain?
7. What do the sworn sisters tell Lily about Snow Flower?
8. What food restrictions did Lily have when she was pregnant?
9. How does Lily respond when she hears Snow Flower sing the Letter of Vituperation?
10. Is Lily supportive of her husband's plan to travel to Guilin and buy salt to sell back in Tongkou?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is the contract that Lily and Snow Flower write? How do they uphold this contract through the years? What makes Lily think that Snow Flower has broken it?
Essay Topic 2
How are girls and women restricted in their interaction with the larger world outside their homes? In what way does a "women's chamber" confine them? Provide three examples of how Lily catches glimpses of the world in her "daughter days."
Essay Topic 3
Do you think Lily makes up for her humiliation of Snow Flower by her actions during the last days of Snow Flower's life? Why does she ask for Snow Flower's forgiveness at the end of the novel? What is the one regret Lily has regarding her laotong relationship with Snow Flower?
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