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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. While working at the paint shop, what is the name of the color that offends Maxine?
(a) China white.
(b) Gook white.
(c) Nigger yellow.
(d) Chinese yellow.

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

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

4. Where does Maxine's aunt deliver her baby?
(a) In her sister-in-law's home.
(b) In the pigsty.
(c) In her home.
(d) In the garden.

5. When the girl returns from her journey, what is it time for her to begin?
(a) Learning about her visions.
(b) Learning about the white tigers.
(c) Her dragon lessons.
(d) Her cooking lessons.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When Maxine's father leaves China, who goes with him?

3. Who does the girl see as her future husband in the water gourd?

4. What group terrorizes Maxine's family in China?

5. Where does Maxine attend college in the sixties?

Short Essay Questions

1. When she is about to stay overnight in the haunted room at school, what does the narrator's mother tell the other girls at medical school to do if they find her very afraid in the morning?

2. Explain how the girl in the white tigers fantasy story meets the old couple who train her.

3. What are three of the gifts Moon Orchid brings her family from China?

4. What does speaking American feminine mean to the narrator?

5. What are two of the three Chinese customs the narrator comments on after pondering how her aunt became pregnant?

6. What are at least two of the most difficult things on the narrator's list that she tells her mother?

7. What story does the narrator's mother tell at the beginning of the novel?

8. Why doesn't the narrator visit her parents often?

9. Describe a common practice the narrator mentions that is used to kill baby girls after birth in China.

10. What is one thing Moon Orchid notices about Brave Orchid's home that she thinks is strange? Explain why she thinks it is strange.

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