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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was H. H. Tien studying?
(a) Law.
(b) Medicine.
(c) Applied mathematics.
(d) Economics.

2. How much money was Aunt Baba given to live on?
(a) 10 yuan.
(b) 20 yuan.
(c) 15 yuan.
(d) 25 yuan.

3. How many families shared the home where Aunt Baba lived when Adeline and Bob visited?
(a) Nine.
(b) Eight.
(c) Ten.
(d) Seven.

4. How many of Bob's brothers enlisted during World War II?
(a) Three.
(b) One.
(c) Two.
(d) Four.

5. How close was the hotel where Bob and Adleine stayed in Shanghai to the Sheng Xin primary school that Adeline had attended?
(a) A few hundred yards.
(b) About three blocks.
(c) Two miles.
(d) One mile.

6. How much older was H. H. than Adeline?
(a) Eight years.
(b) Five years.
(c) Six years.
(d) Seven years.

7. How long was Adeline's flight to America?
(a) 24 hours.
(b) 15 hours.
(c) 18 hours.
(d) 48 hours.

8. When Adeline was at Tsan Yuk, how much more were the male doctors paid than the female doctors?
(a) 20 percent.
(b) 15 percent.
(c) 25 percent.
(d) 30 percent.

9. When was the first Tiananmen Incident?
(a) 1973.
(b) 1983.
(c) 1969.
(d) 1976.

10. When all Chinese industries and businesses were nationalized, what did deserving owners receive for their businesses for ten years?
(a) 35 percent of the net worth.
(b) 10 percent of the net worth.
(c) 7 percent of the net worth.
(d) 5 percent of the net worth.

11. How much did Adeline earn a month during her internship at St. Mary's Hospital?
(a) $250.
(b) $400.
(c) $350.
(d) $300.

12. Where did Bob Mah teach?
(a) UCLA.
(b) California State.
(c) Biola.
(d) Pepperdine.

13. Who was excluded from Father's seventieth birthday celebration party in Hong Kong?
(a) Edgar.
(b) James.
(c) Adeline.
(d) Gregory.

14. In Chapter 18, where were the college friends from that Byron invited to dinner?
(a) University of Hong Kong.
(b) University of Taiwan.
(c) New York.
(d) Philadelphia.

15. What was Gregory's wife's name?
(a) Martha.
(b) Matilda.
(c) Anna.
(d) Bethany.

Short Answer Questions

1. When were some of Adeline's more idealistic contemporaries asked to leave Britain?

2. What hours did taxi-drivers, hair-dressers, waitresses, nurses, telephone operators, and others work a day for meager wages?

3. When did Father become a naturalized British citizen?

4. How many people died when an earthquake shook Tangshan?

5. When did Father sell his Buick?

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