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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13: A Birthday Party.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Third Brother tell his siblings about Niang?
(a) That she is crippled.
(b) That she is having an affair.
(c) That she overheard their entire plan to write the letter to Father.
(d) That she favors him above the others.

2. Why does Adeline's relationship with PLT startle Aunt Baba?
(a) She worries for the duckling's safety.
(b) Adeline talks to it as if it were her baby sister.
(c) She ignores the duckling completely.
(d) She allows the duckling in the house.

3. What is the name of the new tutor-nanny who gives Big Sister the creeps?
(a) Miss Fei.
(b) Miss Chu.
(c) Miss Nei.
(d) Miss Chien.

4. How long ago has the custom of bound feet been abandoned by the time Grandmother Ye Ye talks with Adeline?
(a) Fifty years.
(b) Five years.
(c) Thirty years.
(d) Ten years.

5. Who comes to get Adeline after she is lost after school?
(a) Second Brother.
(b) Niang.
(c) Big Sister.
(d) Her father.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did mothers bind their little girls' feet?

2. What do the Huangs bring the children?

3. How long have Father, Niang and Fourth Brother been living in Shanghai before the surprise outing?

4. What happens to Adeline as she is eating her fruit?

5. How does Niang discover Adeline's lie?

(see the answer key)

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