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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11: PLT.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Aunt Baba request from Father and Niang?
(a) To get a new wardrobe.
(b) To get married.
(c) To leave Shanghai.
(d) To go to work as a bank teller.

2. How does Adeline describe her little sister when she arrives in Shanghai?
(a) Like a smaller version of Niang, holding her head high and walking slowly
(b) Like an annoying pest, spoiled to the core.
(c) Like an awkward toddler, racing from one place to another.
(d) Like a big doll with large, round eyes and chubby pink cheeks.

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

4. Who comes to visit the family after Father and Niang return from Tianjin?
(a) The Huangs.
(b) The nuns from their old missionary school.
(c) The Stricklands.
(d) Their former cook.

5. Why did mothers bind their little girls' feet?
(a) No man would marry a woman with large, unbound feet.
(b) They thought it was better for their health.
(c) They thought women shouldn't walk.
(d) They didn't think women should have feet.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Ye Ye take Adeline and her siblings after Nai Nai's death?

2. Where do they bury PLT?

3. Who comes to get Adeline after she is lost after school?

4. What is the name of the dog that greets the children and what type of dog is he?

5. Who is the only person who cannot give in to beg for tram fare from Niang?

(see the answer key)

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