Formative Assessment in English 8: Spring Silkworms by Mao Dun

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Who is an elderly peasant who lost his rice fields and hoped that a good crop of silkworms will wipe out his debts?

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Dung Bao

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Who is the eldest son of Dung Bao and believes that the family's precarious state is their fate?

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A Su

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Who is the cheerful, outgoing, rebellious, and youngest son of Dung Bao who lends a helping hand to any hardworking village woman?

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A Duo

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Who is the flirtatious young wife of an old neighbor who got jealous and angry at Dung Bao's family?

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Lotus

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Where did the story happen?

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The story happened in Southern China during the spring time.

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What was the main problem faced by the characters in the story?

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The characters are worried about their survival as the silk-weaving factories there are in idle because everything in China is in decline.

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IS IT TRUE OR FALSE? Based on the Chinese story, Dung Bao bought and used better-quality foreign (Japanese) eggs for hatching silkworms, not the Chinese eggs.

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FALSE

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Is it true or false? Dung Bao's silkworm harvest, like that of everyone else's in the village, is prodigious, the best he has seen in decades, with more than 1000 pounds of cocoons.

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FALSE

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IS IT TRUE OR FALSE? A Duo, the youngest son of Dung Bao, discovers that the angry, resentful Lotus has stolen some of his family's silkworms and thrown them into the stream.

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TRUE

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IS IT TRUE OR FALSE? Based on the last part of the Chinese story, Dung Bao and his fellow villagers, for all their Herculean efforts, have not sold enough even to cover their expenses.

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TRUE