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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Big Sister do to keep her gift from Grand Aunt?
(a) She claims to lose it.
(b) She admits keeping the gift at Aunt Baba's insistence and hiding it from Niang.
(c) She hands it to her future husband as a promise gift.
(d) She buries it in the backyard.

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

3. What happens to the nicest gifts from Big Sister's wedding?
(a) Niang keeps them for herself.
(b) They are sent back to Tianjin.
(c) Big Sister hides all of them at a friend's house.
(d) They are donated to charity.

4. What does Adeline wish with all her heart as she stays in her room?
(a) That she could run away.
(b) That she would be adopted by Wu Chen-mei's family.
(c) That she would be Jackie and Jackie would be her.
(d) That she had never returned home.

5. To whom will Big Sister be married?
(a) Someone from their church.
(b) Niang's former math teacher.
(c) Dr. Lui, a business associate of her Father's.
(d) Dr. Sung's son, Samuel.

6. Who meets the family at the gangplank?
(a) No one.
(b) Big Sister.
(c) Niang.
(d) Father.

7. How many people attend Big Sister's wedding?
(a) Thirty.
(b) Five hundred.
(c) Three hundred.
(d) One hundred.

8. Which languages are highlighted in Hong Kong?
(a) English and Chinese.
(b) French and Chinese.
(c) French and English.
(d) English and Spanish.

9. What does Aunt Reine surprise the family with when she arrives?
(a) She wants to adopt Adeline.
(b) She is pregnant.
(c) She is moving in with them.
(d) She cuts diamonds from her coat buttons.

10. What pact do Adeline and her two friends make to each other?
(a) That they will escape to America together.
(b) That they will remain in Hong Kong forever.
(c) That they will get away, stand on their own two feet and create their own destiny.
(d) That they will remain best friends forever.

11. Which one of these things is NOT handed out to the class by Adeline's rival, Chen Lei-lei?
(a) Pencils.
(b) Dragon eyes.
(c) Beef jerky.
(d) Bookmarks.

12. Where is Adeline dropped off?
(a) At an orphanage in Beijing.
(b) At St. Joseph's in Tianjin.
(c) At St. Joseph's in Shanghai.
(d) At an orphanage in Hong Kong.

13. Who sleeps in the bed next to Adeline at her new location?
(a) No one.
(b) Twins.
(c) Wu Chen-mei.
(d) Lei-lei.

14. What does Father tell her when he returns home?
(a) That she can return to Wu Chen-mei's house.
(b) That she is worthless.
(c) That she and Aunt Baba will have to be separated.
(d) That she is no longer allowed in their home.

15. What animal is Wu Chen-mei about to receive?
(a) A duckling.
(b) A pug.
(c) A bird.
(d) A fish.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who discovers that Niang learns about the gift that Big Sister is hiding from her?

2. What fills Adeline with dread?

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

4. What is the one thing Adeline wishes would come true?

5. What do the siblings nickname the room where Little Sister and Fourth Brother live?

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