Lisa See Trivia

1. Who was Peony engaged to marry?

From Quiz Peony in Love

Answer: Wu Ren

Wu Ren was the son of one of Peony's father's friends. Peony's and Ren's fathers had vowed that their families would be joined together even before Ren and Peony were born. Ren was a poet and was what Peony described as 'man-beautiful'.

From Quiz The Interior

Answer: Suchee

Suchee writes and asks for Hulan to help her discover what really happened to Miaoshan, Suchee's daughter. The local police authorities rule the death a suicide, but Suchee believes that her daughter was murdered.

From Quiz Flower Net

Answer: Father

Vice Minister Liu is Hulan's father. She originally got the job at the Ministry of Public Security as a tea-girl. Without her father knowing, she begins to work on cases and by the time he finds out about it, she has done well and progressed far enough that he would lose face if he were to demote her. He wishes that she would quit her job for the MPS and not work.

From Quiz Dragon Bones

Answer: Lily Sinclair

Lily works for Cosgrove's, a company that auctions high-value art in Hong Kong. She is working along with the others at Site 518. Brian McCarthy finds artifacts for her to smuggle out to Hong Kong to sell at auction, even though it is illegal for the artifacts to be removed from the country.

From Quiz "Snow Flower and the Secret Fan" by Lisa See

Answer: China

This book is set in nineteenth-century China, in a remote Hunan county. The author actually visited China before writing the book so that she could do some research.

From Quiz Peony in Love

Answer: The Peony Pavilion

"The Peony Pavilion" was Peony's favorite work and her father directed a version of it in their family gardens during the time of her sixteenth birthday. "The Peony Pavilion" is an actual play that was written by Tang Xianzu during the Ming Dynasty. The play tells the story of a lovesick maiden who is later brought back to life by her dream lover.

From Quiz Flower Net

Answer: Billy Watson

Billy Watson is the son of Bill Watson, the U.S. ambassador to China. He is found frozen in the lake by an elderly man and his granddaughter. It turns out that his death resulted from poisoning.

From Quiz "Snow Flower and the Secret Fan" by Lisa See

Answer: nu shu

Nu shu is a type of writing that was developed by the women in that part of China so that they could communicate with one another.

From Quiz Peony in Love

Answer: She met a man in her family's garden.

During the first night of the play, Peony became overwhelmed by emotion and she took a walk through her garden. When she got to the Riding-the-Wind Pavilion, she met a man that she had been looking at through the crack in the screen where she was seated at the play. She knew that if anyone found out that she'd been alone with a man who wasn't a family member, especially a stranger, she would be in big trouble. She and the man talked of the play and he asked that she meet him again the next night. She didn't know it at the time, but the man was actually the one she was engaged to marry.

From Quiz The Interior

Answer: She is pregnant.

Hulan and David met again after many years in the book "Flower Net". "The Interior" follows up the action in "Flower Net" and we see that Hulan is pregnant. Before David comes to China, he and Hulan can't agree on who needs to move and what will be best for them and the baby.

From Quiz Flower Net

Answer: Onboard the China Peony

David Stark travels out to the China Peony along with FBI agents Campbell and Gardner to check out the situation with the hundreds of illegal Chinese immigrants on the ship. While he and the other immigrants are trying to rid the ship of the water in the holds, there is a place that the immigrants keep him from seeing. Later, during the night, he enters the room to find the body of Guang Henglai inside a large container of water.

From Quiz Dragon Bones

Answer: Yangzi

Much of the action in this novel is centered around the river. China is having a dam built on this river and many people are having to be relocated to other parts of China. There are factions that are against the building of the dam to protect the natural wonders and archaeological finds that will be underwater after completion of the dam. The actual Yangzi River begins in Tibet and ends at the South China Sea, which makes it the third longest in the world.

From Quiz "Snow Flower and the Secret Fan" by Lisa See

Answer: Lily

Lily narrates the story. She tells the story from her perspective as an old woman in her 'sitting quietly' days.

From Quiz The Interior

Answer: Knight International

Knight International is run by Henry Knight. The factory in Shanxi makes the toys for the television show "Sam & Friends". Henry is going to sell the company to Tartan, who is represented by Phillips, MacKenzie & Stout.

From Quiz Flower Net

Answer: Jiang Jinli

Jiang Jinli is Hulan's mother, who is confined to a wheelchair. She also has a mental illness and is rarely lucid. Hulan goes to see her often and talk with her about things that are going on--whether Jinli is lucid or not.

From Quiz Dragon Bones

Answer: archaeological

Site 518 is located outside of Bashan at the Three Gorges section of the Yangzi River. The archaeologists in the novel are searching for artifacts to prove the age of Chinese civilization.

From Quiz "Snow Flower and the Secret Fan" by Lisa See

Answer: Madame Wang

Madame Wang is Snow Flower's blood aunt, and she is also the go-between who arranges both Lily and Snow Flower's marriages and their relationship with each other as laotong.

From Quiz Peony in Love

Answer: The Viewing Terrace

The Viewing Terrace was a place for ancestors and the souls of the dead to look upon the earthly realm to see what was happening with the living. During her stay on the Viewing Terrace, Peony was visited by other lovesick maidens who had died as a result of starvation after becoming obsessed with "The Peony Pavilion". She was also visited frequently by her grandmother. It was actually through her grandmother's bargaining and bribing of the judges that Peony was allowed to stay on the Viewing Terrace. She was a hungry ghost and was supposed to wander the earthly realm since her ancestor tablet had not been dotted and two parts of her soul could not go to their proper places.

From Quiz The Interior

Answer: Aaron Rodgers

Aaron Rodgers is the manager who walks around the assembly line to check progess and talk to the girls. He is the only one of the foreigners at the factory that speaks Chinese. They call him 'Manager Red Face' because he blushes a lot.

From Quiz Flower Net

Answer: Spencer Lee

Spencer Lee is one of the lieutenants in the Rising Phoenix gang. He is young and does as he is told by those above him, but he is still very rich and has some power. He is arrested in the U.S. and gets out on bail. He then flees to China where he believes he will be given protection; however, he is tried in the Chinese courts and executed the next day.

From Quiz Dragon Bones

Answer: Xiao Da

No one knows who the real Xiao Da is because he does not show himself. He doesn't even show himself at meetings with his followers. He meets with them in caves where he can sit on a higher level out of sight from them. At the end of the book, Hulan discovers who he really is.

From Quiz Peony in Love

Answer: Tan Ze

Tan Ze was the daughter of Commissioner Tan, a very important and powerful official. Peony first met Tan Ze during the production of the play when Tan Ze was only nine. Ze was a very selfish and spoiled child, and was even hard to deal with after she married Ren. Peony decided to try and get Ren to feel her through Ze, and she manipulated Ze to do things with Ren and to help her finish her commentary on "The Peony Pavilion". Ze ended up starving herself to death and losing her son because she was jealous of Ren's love for Peony.

From Quiz The Interior

Answer: It seems too perfect.

A person's 'dangan' is a personal government file containing information about that person and everything they have done. When Hulan checks Governor Sun's it seems too good to be true. She also notices that there seems to be two different handwritings which further leads her to believe that someone changed it.

From Quiz Dragon Bones

Answer: Lawyer

David is an American lawyer who is married to Liu Hulan. He and Hulan live in Beijing and he represents the firm Phillips & MacKenzie. He is hired by the Chinese Cultural Relics Bureau to look into the disappearance of Chinese artifacts from Site 518.

From Quiz "Snow Flower and the Secret Fan" by Lisa See

Answer: a fan

At the beginning of their 'laotong' relationship, Snow Flower sends Lily the fan. Lily breaks with tradition and sends the same fan back to Snow Flower with her response instead of sending a different gift. They continue to use the fan to document important events and messages during their lives.

From Quiz Peony in Love

Answer: Qian Yi

Qian Yi was the sickly fifth daughter of a poor farmer who worked for Peony's father. Accompanied by the soul of her mother, Peony went to the farm. She convinced Madame Qian to bind Yi's feet so that she could have a better future than the one that awaited her. The spirits of Peony and her mother helped Madame Qian until the time for Peony's mother's soul to go to its rightful place. Peony stayed with Yi's family and refined her skills as a ghost so that she could help the family. When Yi was old enough, Peony ensured that she would marry Wu Ren and become Peony's second sister-wife. Yi made a great wife for Ren and made both Ren and Peony very happy.

From Quiz The Interior

Answer: Tang Dan

Tang Dan is the wealthiest person around Da Shui village. He murders Miaoshan and tries to get her mother, Suchee, to marry him so that he can have her land along with its very reliable well. He also murders Tsai Bing so that his parents, as end-of-the-liners, will leave their land so that he can have it.

From Quiz Flower Net

Answer: Peter Sun

Peter Sun is Hulan's partner. He drives her everywhere she needs to go and reports her activities back to the Ministry of Public Security. She doesn't let him participate very actively in the cases because she doesn't trust him since she knows that it is his job to report her activities to their superiors. Once he stands up for her, she realizes that there was more to Peter than she thought.

From Quiz Dragon Bones

Answer: Panda Guesthouse

The Panda Guesthouse had been the residence of the Wang family before the revolution/Liberation. Most of the family was killed during the revolution, but Mr. Wang escaped. Lily Sinclair represents the Wang family through her work at Cosgrove's and tells the story of how the guesthouse was being refurbished until the family found out that it would be below the water once the dam was finished. The Wang family then turned it into the Panda Guesthouse to get some money out of it.

From Quiz "Snow Flower and the Secret Fan" by Lisa See

Answer: She was stung by a bee

Lily, Snow Flower, and Beautiful Moon were all working on the items for their dowry. It was very hot, so Lily's dad and uncle set up a canopy outside so that the girls could escape some of the heat inside. While they were working outside, Beautiful Moon was stung by a bee and started to swell up tremendously. She died before anything could be done to help her.

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