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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Qian watching her friends play at recess when she fell in Chapter 22?

2. In Chapter 11, how much was congee in the area where Qian's mother was a salon apprentice?

3. Who did Qian read about that taught her that lawyers did not have to be men or white?

4. What did Qian get in her second meal at McDonald's with James and her mother?

5. Where did Crane have a mass that needed to be removed in Chapter 21?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 18, what did Qian realize she wanted to do when she grew up, and how did people respond to her dream?

2. What did a woman named Mimi tell Qian and her mother about James Lombardi?

3. What bad habits did Qian slip into in fourth grade and why?

4. Who was James Lombardi?

5. How did Qian get a cat?

6. What happened when Qian was on a field trip to the Brooklyn Bridge?

7. What did the doctors decide was wrong with Crane?

8. How did Vincent feel every time they had to walk past the cops at the hospital?

9. What was Qian's teacher like in third grade?

10. What perils were there for Qian when she started riding the subway alone?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The Wangs rarely had the basics most people consider essential. What basics did the Wangs lack? How did they have to furnish their home? Were the Wangs considered to be impoverished?

Essay Topic 2

Describe Ojan's relationship with the library and what it represented to her.

Essay Topic 3

What a reader knows about events and people is determined by the point of view in a book. What is the point of view in the book? How does the point of view influence what readers know about events and people?

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