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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many children were in Maxine's aunt's family?
(a) Three.
(b) Five.
(c) Four.
(d) Two.

2. Why does Maxine feel she is punishing her aunt?
(a) She cannot speak of her.
(b) She went against her mother's wishes.
(c) She did not like her.
(d) She never met her.

3. According to Chinese custom, where would Maxine's mother and aunt have lived after their husbands left?
(a) In the same home.
(b) With their in-laws.
(c) Outside the village
(d) In their own homes.

4. When the girl sees visions of people spinning in the fire, what do these people turn into?
(a) Angels.
(b) Her parents..
(c) White tigers.
(d) Mountains

5. What does the enemy's leader, a prince, steal from the woman?
(a) Her head wrap.
(b) Her stories.
(c) Her bead pouch.
(d) Her sword.

6. How many years has it been since Maxine's mother told the narrator the story of her aunt?
(a) 1.
(b) 14.
(c) 10.
(d) 20.

7. Who does the girl see as her future husband in the water gourd?
(a) A man she meets on the mountain.
(b) A distant cousin.
(c) An army warrior.
(d) A childhood playmate.

8. What is the woman distracted by that leads to her capture?
(a) Wildflowers.
(b) Deer tracks.
(c) Birds.
(d) Men.

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

10. Who does the girl meet at the top of the mountain?
(a) An old man and an old woman.
(b) An elderly soothsayer.
(c) A ghost from her past.
(d) Her mother and father.

11. Why does Maxine re-tell her aunts story?
(a) So she can be haunted by ghosts.
(b) So she can depict the aunt in a better light.
(c) So her mother will be angry.
(d) So she can break the curse of her aunt.

12. Who does the narrator's mother say Maxine can tell about her aunt?
(a) Just her father.
(b) No one.
(c) Just her sisters.
(d) Only friends of the family.

13. Why does Maxine add a word to boys' names?
(a) It is part of the Chinese culture.
(b) It is a sign of romantic affection.
(c) She feels it shows sisterly affection.
(d) She does not have any brothers of her own.

14. Who is Kuan Kung?
(a) The emperor the woman is going to fight.
(b) The god of literature and war.
(c) The woman's husband.
(d) The legendary heroine the woman looks up to.

15. Why are the Chinese afraid of drowned ghosts?
(a) They are looking to pull someone down in the water to replace them.
(b) They are most likely to haunt people because of unfinished business.
(c) They act violently because of their traumatic deaths.
(d) They have the most unlikely deaths.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does legend say happens to the women with bound feet?

2. While with her army, what does the woman do at night?

3. What is the woman's first enemy?

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

5. What word does Maxine always add to boys' names?

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