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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. What does Li-yan think about American food when she went to dinner with Jin?
(a) It is served too hot.
(b) Too rich and too much cow.
(c) There is not enough salt.
(d) The portions are too big.

2. How old is Li-yan when she applies to her trade school's tea program?
(a) 35.
(b) 26.
(c) 30.
(d) 21.

3. What has Ci-teh been buying in the village in Part IV?
(a) Tea trees.
(b) Land.
(c) Houses.
(d) Animals.

4. Li-yan is surprised by the changes to what village?
(a) Bamboo Forest.
(b) Menghai.
(c) Singapore.
(d) Spring Well.

5. What does Mrs. Chang do for a living?
(a) English teacher.
(b) Teaches philosophy.
(c) Works in a hotel.
(d) Scientist.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ci-teh do when the tea prices crash?

2. What aphorism does Li-yan recite to Deh-ja when she finds her at the Social Welfare Institute?

3. Complete this aphorism. "The bird that stand out ...

4. When the tea market falls apart, where does Li-yan go?

5. Where does Li-yan work while she is in school in Kunming?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Li-yan so upset by Mr. Huang's arrival at her teashop?

2. What is the cause of resentment between Ci-teh and Li-yan?

3. What does Li-yan like about talking to Mrs. Chang?

4. Why does one of the trade school examiners tell Li-yan she does not have a chance of getting into the program?

5. Despite getting a make-over in Los Angeles, how does Li-yan feel?

6. The term 'tu' referring to the hill tribes was an insult meaning they were backward. How has the meaning of 'tu' changed in the chapter A Drinkable Antique?

7. What significant even happens in the house Jin purchased on Shamian Island?

8. Why did Li-yan's family conduct a spiritual incantation over Jin?

9. While Li-yan is visiting her family, what does everyone continually ask her?

10. Why does Akha Law require Li-yan to confront Ci-teh in front of the village instead of privately?

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