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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15: Boarding School in Tianjin.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Adeline supposed to be afraid of?
(a) Being attacked by the nuns in the school.
(b) Being left alone.
(c) Being left behind by her parents.
(d) The Communists coming into Tianjin and persecuting everyone at the school.

2. How does Niang react when her daughter breaks the item?
(a) She sends Little Sister to her room.
(b) She calmly picks up the pieces and walks away.
(c) She starts to slap and hit her daughter violently.
(d) She tells Aunt Baba that it is all her fault.

3. Where is Adeline when she overhears Niang and Grand Aunt talking?
(a) In the bathroom.
(b) Hiding under the table.
(c) Hiding under a large chair.
(d) Hiding behind a potted plant.

4. When do Niang's plans for Big Sister come to light?
(a) On her future husband's birthday.
(b) On Adeline's birthday.
(c) Chinese New Year 1948.
(d) On Big Sister's birthday.

5. Who does Little Sister prefer when she arrives in Shanghai?
(a) Third Brother.
(b) Adeline.
(c) Niang.
(d) Aunt Baba.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Adeline describe her little sister when she arrives in Shanghai?

2. Who does Adeline eat dinner with on Christmas Day?

3. What does Little Sister dump all over the floor in defiance of her mother?

4. What does Big Sister receive from her Grand Aunt?

5. What happens to the other students at St. Joseph's?

(see the answer key)

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