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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The cop at the scene of the suicide writes down the address for _____________ for Leila.
(a) The hospital
(b) The police station
(c) The prison
(d) The morgue

2. Nina complains that ____________ is not doing her share of the work at the laundry business.
(a) Ona
(b) Leila
(c) Eva
(d) Mah

3. The early years of Salmon Alley are a time of getting along by the ____________ virtues of loyalty, endurance, and hope.
(a) Christian
(b) Japanese
(c) Simple
(d) Confucian

4. What does Leila decide to do when Mason goes off to work after they party?
(a) Grade papers
(b) Find Leon
(c) Take a hot bath
(d) Go for a swim

5. When Nina takes the urn to ____________, Mah gets upset and hides it from sight.
(a) Baby Clothes
(b) The Mission
(c) Salmon Alley
(d) The cemetery

6. What does Mason call Mah when she comes home from her hair appointment?
(a) Miss America
(b) Beautiful Doll
(c) Miss Beauty Queen
(d) Miss Chinatown

7. Leila is in bed with Mason when Mah delivers a list of _________ for her to do.
(a) Stitches
(b) Orders
(c) Chores
(d) Phone calls

8. What is the celebration which is taking place all too soon after the death of Ona?
(a) New Year
(b) Ona's birthday
(c) Halloween
(d) Christmas

9. What is the word that Luday keeps repeating to Mah which helps her to feel calmer?
(a) Peace
(b) Completion
(c) Unity
(d) Redemption

10. What does the Chinese word of the number of the building floor from which Ona jumped sound like?
(a) To live
(b) To smile
(c) To die
(d) To be free

11. Mason tells Leila to let ___________ go, but Leila is afraid he will stir up trouble.
(a) Leon
(b) Jorge
(c) Zeke
(d) Osvaldo

12. Tommie was a nervous wreck as he watched the sewing ladies on long ___________ breaks.
(a) Tea
(b) Prayer
(c) Reading
(d) Walk

13. The women at the factory are working hard as the ___________ is easy for them to make and it pays well.
(a) Sock
(b) Pattern
(c) Purse
(d) Shoe

14. Leila cannot keep up with Mah as Mah knows ____________ as a doctor knows bones.
(a) Measurements
(b) Seams
(c) Patterns
(d) Fabrics

15. What had Ona done when Leila had to translate a conversation between a Woolworth's manager and Leon?
(a) Broken a window
(b) Been caught shoplifting
(c) Spilled a bottle of nailpolish
(d) Applied for a job

Short Answer Questions

1. Always watching for business opportunities, Leon talks ___________ into running L.L. Grocery.

2. Ten-year-old ___________ does the most in order to get Leon to come back home to be a family.

3. When the S.S. Independent docks, ____________ has cleaned the house, helped sew a dozen culottes, and heated lunch.

4. Nina calls the parenting style of Leon and Mah to be parenting _______________.

5. Leila remembers thanking the ______________ for offering her some time off.

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