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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What office has frozen the assets of Joseph, according to the book?
(a) Immigration.
(b) Internal Revenue Service.
(c) Army.
(d) Office of Price Administration.

2. What does Anna do with the money that she receives from selling the gift Joseph gets her?
(a) Buys a car.
(b) Donates it to church.
(c) Burns it.
(d) Sends it back.

3. What do Anna and Genevieve do after mass one Sunday?
(a) Go shopping.
(b) Head to the train station.
(c) Go to breakfast.
(d) Go for a walk.

4. What language does Joseph speak to the staff when they go to a local Chinese restaurant?
(a) Mandarin.
(b) He doesn't.
(c) English.
(d) Spanish.

5. Who walks into the mortuary when Anna is visiting her mother?
(a) Gran.
(b) William.
(c) Joseph.
(d) Jack.

6. What does Joseph send to Anna as a gift on her seventeenth birthday?
(a) Money.
(b) Pearl earrings.
(c) Book.
(d) Gold necklace.

7. What happens when Anna reads about her mother's condition at the library?
(a) Vomits.
(b) Screams.
(c) Faints.
(d) Sleeps.

8. Joseph sees a group of ________ loading packages onto a freighter and wonders if this is the process of gold being moved.
(a) Stoogies.
(b) Coolies.
(c) Children.
(d) Women.

9. Joseph tells Genevieve that he doesn't want a _________, which Anna hears from her bedroom.
(a) Family.
(b) Business.
(c) Boring life.
(d) Trip to America.

10. In what city do Anna and her husband live, close to her family?
(a) San Diego.
(b) Laguna Beach.
(c) South Pasadena.
(d) Culver City.

11. Genevieve tells Joseph that he needs to __________, but when he doesn't, she becomes upset.
(a) Pay some bills.
(b) Do his time.
(c) Go back to school.
(d) Find a job.

12. At what time does Anna's father show up at her door on her birthday, bringing roses and perfume?
(a) 9:00 am.
(b) 10:00 am.
(c) 1:00 pm.
(d) 11:00 am.

13. Joseph decides that the ________ will not be able to control China, so he says where he is to make more money.
(a) People.
(b) Communists.
(c) Japanese.
(d) Liberation army.

14. What does Anna learn about Joseph's work when he is not with the family?
(a) Criminal.
(b) Smuggler.
(c) He is retired.
(d) Night janitor.

15. Genevieve and Anna decide to eat at __________, when they see that Joseph has not arrived.
(a) Joe's.
(b) Jimmy's.
(c) Plaza Hotel.
(d) Home.

Short Answer Questions

1. For how long is Joseph in Chungking, according to this section of the story?

2. Who becomes more talkative and more open as time goes on?

3. Where do Genevieve and Anna live for a month before Anna learns they are moving to Hungjoa?

4. Who drives Anna and Genevieve to the train station to meet Joseph when he returns?

5. Joseph is nervous about ________ since his United States assets have been frozen.

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