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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the main reason Maxine's mother likes to tell stores?
(a) To make money.
(b) To keep from falling asleep.
(c) To warn her children about life.
(d) To show her understanding of story-telling techniques.

2. What substance is the girl shown that could allow her to live forever?
(a) Tree sap.
(b) Silver.
(c) White tiger hair.
(d) Water from a gourd.

3. When the girl walks into the dead land, how does she find something to eat?
(a) A white rabbit jumps into her fire.
(b) She eats what she is carrying with her.
(c) She quickly grows food from seeds she finds.
(d) The white tigers provide her with food.

4. What does Maxine say about the separation between China and America?
(a) There is a lack of separation.
(b) There is a huge separation in culture.
(c) There is a separation in ghost stories.
(d) Her mother does not acknowledge a separation.

5. What do Maxine's mother and her friends steal to burn the haunted room?
(a) Alcohol and matches.
(b) Firecrackers and newspaper.
(c) Wood and gasoline.
(d) Bed sheets and lighter fluid.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Maxine add a word to boys' names?

2. Which of these creatures does not drop out of the trees, according to Maxine's mother?

3. For what profession does Brave Orchid tell the dealer she will train the slave girl?

4. In what decade did Maxine's father leave China?

5. How does the woman kill the baron of her village?

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