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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the housing project which is next to the school where Leila works?
(a) Charles Darney
(b) You Thin Toy
(c) Edith Eaton
(d) Nam Ping Yuen

2. What is the surname that Leila is happy to have shed, as it sounds like 'bitter' in her dialect?
(a) Yee
(b) Chun
(c) Fu
(d) Chung

3. Which of the daughters is a biological daughter of Lyman and Mah?
(a) Nina
(b) Leila
(c) Ona
(d) None

4. When Ona, too, is lost, Leon decides to ship out to ______________ in response.
(a) Germany
(b) Japan
(c) Arctic Circle
(d) Cape Horn

5. Mah insists that Leila also bring a jar to ___________, which Leila does not want to do as she does not want to be in the middle.
(a) Zeke
(b) Leon
(c) Dale
(d) Nina

6. What kind of medication was Ona taking at the time of her death, according to the book?
(a) Chinese herbs for pain
(b) Uppers
(c) Nothing
(d) Downers

7. Where is Leon working to help out with the lunch rush, as she eventually discovers?
(a) Universal
(b) Mary's
(c) Lori's
(d) Uncle's

8. Who is the national guide assigned to Nina's tour that Nina confesses to liking?
(a) Chen
(b) Zeke
(c) Jerry
(d) Zhang

9. Who rescues Leila after a tense phone call with Mah about Nina and about Leila's decision to live with Mason?
(a) Leon
(b) Dale
(c) Mason
(d) Zeke

10. Nina decides to take on a job of leading tours in _______, a place she has never seen.
(a) Hawaii
(b) China
(c) California
(d) Egypt

11. Fu and Mah used to live in an apartment when they were together right above Tommie Hom's ___________.
(a) Sweatshop
(b) Jewelry store
(c) Art shop
(d) Attic

12. Zeke makes a rule about not taking __________ from friends.
(a) Money
(b) Lovers
(c) Help
(d) Advice

13. Chinese boys in the schools where Nina would attend spread rumors that she would only date ________.
(a) Girls
(b) Whites
(c) Teachers
(d) Blacks

14. Leon claims the family's bad luck started when he broke his promise to return Grandpa Leong's _____ to China.
(a) Ashes
(b) Body
(c) Bones
(d) Papers

15. What does Leon want to buy Mah at the Goodwill with the $25 he gets from working at the cafe?
(a) A jade plant
(b) An unneeded stereo
(c) A ring
(d) Flowers

Short Answer Questions

1. Where must Mason deliver the car in order to get it to his cousin, Dale?

2. Where does Leila get married which causes all of the local gossips to begin to talk about her?

3. What kinds of dinners do the two sisters make their toast to as they sit in the restaurant?

4. Zeke has a crush on ___________, but she deems him too Chinatown and too short for her tastes.

5. Someone thinks that Leong's body may have been _________________ in order to make room for others.

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