The Ghost Bride Quizzes

The Ghost Bride Quiz 1

1 Where does Li Lan live?
Malaya

China

Vietnam

Hong Kong
2 What is the Lim family?
A powerful local British family

Old friends of Li Lan's mother's family

Old friends of the Pan family

A powerful local Chinese family
3 What is a ghost bride?
A bride who participates in a marriage of convenience

A bride who marries remotely

A bride who marries a groom who is dead

A bride who is married after her own death
4 Why does Li Lan's father even consider letting her become a ghost bride?
Because he has not reached out socially in years, limiting Li Lan's options

Because they only have ties with the Lim family

Because he is in debt to the patriarch of the Lim family

All of the above
5 In retrospect, what pleases Madame Lin about the fact that Li Lan behaves badly?
She likes that Li Lan seems geniune

She is happy to have her negative beliefs about Li Lan's family confirmed

She is excited to teach Li Lan herself

She believes that Li Lan will be easily manipulated
6 What does the young man's interest in clocks indicate about him?
That he is invested in "progress" over "tradition"

That he is invested in "tradition" over "progress"

That differences between progress and tradition don't make sense to him

That he is skilled in general with his hands
7 What does Li Lan give Madame Lin after her first visit to the Lim family household?
A ribbon from her hair

A teacup

A pocket watch

A comb
8 What are the consequences of this gift?
It enables Lim Tian Ching to haunt her

It creates a thread between her and Tian Bai

Li Lan has to buy a new ribbon

It causes Madame Lim to investigate her for the death of his son
9 Where does she end up during her dreams that first night?
The grass plains of the dead

The graveyard

The Lim household

Her mother's old houshold
10 Why does Lim Tian Ching come and visit her?
He wants to force her to marry him

He wants to warn her against Madame Lim

He wants to warn her against Tian Bai

He wants to warn her against Yan Hong
11 Why might Madame Lin have pretended to be closer to Li Lan's mother than she actually was?
In order to convince Li Lan that her mother misses her

In order to take Li Lan under her wing

In order to turn Li Lan against her father's wish that she not get involved in a ghost marriage

In order to seem trustworthy to Li Lan
12 What is the festival of the seventh day of the seventh month celebrating?
Seventh sons of seventh sons

The queen of heaven

Ghosts who died of broken hearts

A story of two lovers
13 What embarasses Li Lan about meeting Tian Bai?
That he might think that she likes Yan Hong more than him

That she thought he was a servant

That she is infatuated with him

That she never introduced herself to him
14 What is unlucky about getting a clock as a gift?
There is nothing unlucky about getting a clock as a gift

They are thought to measure out the days of your life

They are thought to represent how time moves differently in the spirit world

They are thought to be unnatural for mechanically measuring something indescribable
15 How does the gift of the clock foreshadow other events in the novel?
Li Lan's time literally runs out quickly

The days of Li Lan's life end up being immeasurable

Tian Bai's time literally runs out quickly

All of the above
16 What is strange about Li Lan's dreams for the next week or so?
She does nothing but dream of Tian Bai in Hong Kong

She keeps meeting Lim Tian Ching

She does nothing but dream of that strange world where Lim Tian Ching appeared to her

She begins to see her mother, although she is strangely old
17 Why is Li Lan's father not being able to socialize detrimental to Li Lan, especially after she finds out she was betrothed?
It means that no one can support them in their fight against the Lim family

It means that she can't have a sponsor to help her in society

It means that she can't be trained properly to be a wife

It means that she has no other viable marriage options
18 Why is Li Lan heartbroken after talking to her father?
She realizes how little her father invested in her

She realizes that she will probably be forced to become a ghost bride

She realizes that she had the chance to marry Tian Bai and never knew

All of the above
19 What does Lim Tian Ching's knowledge of who Li Lan is mooning over suggest?
That Lim Tian Ching is obsessed with Tian Bai

That Madame Lim knows that Li Lan loves Tian Bai and has told Lim Tian Ching

That Lim Tian Ching has ways of knowing what happen in the world of the living

That Lim Tian Ching will do anything to avenge his death
20 What does Li Lan give Tian Bai in exchange for the watch?
A ribbon

A comb

A teacup

A scale
21 What are hungry ghosts?
Ghosts that need to be fed human food

Ghosts that are evil

Ghosts that have not been buried properly

Ghosts that feed off of the life force of their former lovers
22 What does the medium secretly tell Li Lan to do?
Burn the ribbon she gave Madame Lim

Take extra doses of the medicine she's been given

Burn hell banknotes for herself

Blow on the scale that she's been given
23 With the context of the full novel in mind, what did the medium know about before anyone else?
That Li Lan would fall in love with Er Lang

That somebody would take over Li Lan's body

That Li Lan would be cast into the spirit world

That Li Lan would come close to dying
24 What partially drives Li Lan to burn the hellnotes?
The news that they no longer have any money

The news that her father owes Lim Tieck Kiong all of his debts

The news that Tian Bai has a mistress

The news that her mother died of smallpox
25 How does Li Lan cope with the overwhelming news she receives at the end of Chapter 10?
She runs away

She decides to take as much medicine as possible

She intentionally overdoses on opium

She tries to connect with the spirit world by forcing herself into a trance

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