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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From where does Adeline call home after getting lost after school?
(a) A friend's home.
(b) A glass shop.
(c) A restaurant.
(d) A brothel.

2. How long after Adeline's mother dies does her father remarry?
(a) Two months.
(b) One year.
(c) One month.
(d) Two years.

3. Which floor is where Father, Niang and her two children have their rooms?
(a) The fourth floor.
(b) The third floor.
(c) The first floor.
(d) The second floor.

4. What do the Huangs bring the children?
(a) New pencils.
(b) Books.
(c) New notebooks.
(d) Seven baby ducklings.

5. How far away from Adeline's home is her school in Shanghai?
(a) Five hundred feet away.
(b) A mile away.
(c) Two miles.
(d) A mile and a half.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who helps Adeline to bury PLT?

3. Why does Father want to test Jackie?

4. Who comes to visit the family after Father and Niang return from Tianjin?

5. What do the children receive for the Chinese New Year?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Adeline do that Niang says she will never forgive?

2. What does Adeline realize is somehow related to the new hierarchy of her family since Nai Nai's death?

3. Name three ways that Father and Niang institute their austerity program towards Adeline and her siblings (excluding Little Brother and Little Sister).

4. Describe Adeline's new home in Shanghai.

5. Describe PLT's death.

6. Where does Ye Ye take Adeline, Big Sister, Big Brother and Second Brother six weeks after Nai Nai's funeral?

7. Why does Father give her a map and why is it significant?

8. What mischievous trick does Big Brother play on Grandfather Ye Ye while he is sleeping?

9. Why were Nai Nai's feet bound in such a way?

10. How were Grandmother Nai Nai's feet bound when she was a small child?

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