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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. How long after Adeline arrived in America did she and Byron marry?
(a) Six months.
(b) One week.
(c) Four months.
(d) Six weeks.

2. 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) One mile.
(c) Two miles.
(d) About three blocks.

3. On what floor was Niang's flat?
(a) Ninth.
(b) Fifth.
(c) Tenth.
(d) Sixth.

4. Where was Tai-way's wedding held?
(a) Minnesota.
(b) Missouri.
(c) New Jersey.
(d) New York.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the maid that Aunt Baba fired in Chapter 20?

2. What did the earthquake register on the Richter Scale that shook Tangshan in 1976?

3. When all Chinese industries and businesses were nationalized, what did deserving owners receive for their businesses for ten years?

4. Why did Niang need surgery?

5. When was Byron born?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Lydia want from Adeline?

2. What did Aunt Baba do after Joseph, Niang, and their family left?

3. What did Gregory tell Adeline about boy/girl relationships?

4. What did Bob Mah have to do during Pearl Harbor?

5. How did Adeline get the money for a plane ticket to America?

6. Why did Alcenith Crawford believe that women doctors had unhappy marriages?

7. Why did Gregory want to leave Nigeria?

8. What job did Adeline arrange for herself in Hong Kong?

9. What did the biopsy report reveal about Niang's illness?

10. What advice did Father give Adeline when he and Niang visited California when she was married to Byron?

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