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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many more telegrams do Anna and her mother receive that leave them to believe Joseph is not coming back?
(a) Two.
(b) Three.
(c) None.
(d) Ten.

2. Who becomes more talkative and more open as time goes on?
(a) Gran.
(b) Joseph.
(c) Anna.
(d) Genevieve.

3. Joseph begins to spend a lot of time at the ________ learning about the news and what has been happening in the world.
(a) Library.
(b) Newspaper.
(c) Train station.
(d) College.

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

5. What kind of watch does Anna's Gran give to her when she graduates?
(a) Elgin.
(b) Timex.
(c) She doesn't.
(d) Rolex.

6. Who refuses to leave Hong Kong, which causes him to be arrested?
(a) Chung Do.
(b) Mei Wah.
(c) Joseph.
(d) William Masters.

7. What does Joseph see being driven by a Chinese man, though he reclaims it in the name of the government?
(a) T-bird.
(b) Escort.
(c) Rolls Royce.
(d) Packard.

8. Who does Anna end up marrying in 1953 after she graduates college?
(a) No one.
(b) Jeff Brackson.
(c) Jack Bradley.
(d) John Brady.

9. When is Anna's baby due, which is when Genevieve hopes to live until?
(a) March.
(b) April.
(c) January.
(d) February.

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

11. Anna and Genevieve will be going to _________ in a month, even though Anna is not comfortable with this idea.
(a) Shanghai.
(b) San Francisco.
(c) Chicago.
(d) New York.

12. Who drives Anna and Genevieve to the train station to meet Joseph when he returns?
(a) Gran.
(b) Mei Wah.
(c) No one.
(d) A taxi driver.

13. Genevieve learns from the ____________ that Joseph has been taken a prisoner in March, 1943.
(a) American Red Cross.
(b) UNICEF.
(c) International Red Cross.
(d) Doctors Without Borders.

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

15. __________ liberation army and the Chinese Nationalist troops are the two factions at war.
(a) People's.
(b) Mao's Peoples.
(c) Japanese.
(d) Chinese.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is in the small teak box that Anna receives from her father after the birth of her second daughter?

2. Who walks away from the conversation between Anna and Joseph at the funeral?

3. Anna begins to work at the ________ library after she graduates from college and is married.

4. _______ decides at this point of the book that she will never allow Joseph in her life again.

5. What does Joseph do for the family in order to help them out with their home?

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