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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the first weekly resident at the motel tell Mia about Mr. Yao?

2. What is the real reason Mia does not want to participate in gym class?

3. What does Jason tell Mia in Part II that shocks her?

4. Who saves Mia from the disheveled man in Chapter 12?

5. What kind of collection does Mia's father have that he will never sell?

Short Essay Questions

1. What act of kindness and generosity does Mia do for Uncle Li in Chapter 16?

2. What does Uncle Li tell Mia and her parents about his work experience that shocks them?

3. Why was the memory of the chocolate-scented notebook such a painful one for Mia?

4. What does Mr. Yao tell Mia is the difference between a good employee and a bad employee?

5. Why does Mia begin to feel sympathy for Jason Yao in Chapter 8?

6. Why does Mia stop just before she tells her new fifth-grade class she lives in a motel?

7. What conclusion does Mia come to about the profitability of the Calivista Motel?

8. Why does Mia's mother get fired from her job at the Chinese restaurant in Part I?

9. Why do Mia's parents refuse to let her help them clean at the motel?

10. What do Mia's parents only use on special occasions, either for joy or distress, from China?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why does Mia have such high hopes for the essay contest offering the ownership of a Vermont hotel as the prize? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your answers.

Essay Topic 2

Why does Mia keep her tip jar at the Calivista a secret from her parents? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text.

Essay Topic 3

Why is it such a shock for Mia to receive Shen's letter and learn that Shen's family seems to have moved into the upper-class back in China? How does this news make Mia feel? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text.

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