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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. Where is the postmark from on the letter that Genevieve receives from Joseph in 1942?
(a) Peking.
(b) Tokyo.
(c) Shanghai.
(d) Java.

2. The women see Joseph eating at the restaurant with a Chinese ____________.
(a) Officer.
(b) Woman.
(c) Diplomat.
(d) Smuggler.

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

4. Joseph is nervous about ________ since his United States assets have been frozen.
(a) Retirement.
(b) Money.
(c) His work.
(d) His reputation.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who thinks that Joseph isn't coming to meet them in Los Angeles because of something that she did?

2. Anna starts her new life at _________ High School, where she decides never to talk about Shanghai again.

3. Who walks into the mortuary when Anna is visiting her mother?

4. __________ liberation army and the Chinese Nationalist troops are the two factions at war.

5. What does Joseph obtain in order to begin to import cars and trucks into the country?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Joseph decide to buy several guns when he is living in China?

2. What doesn't Anna talk about as a part of her social life in South Pasadena?

3. What is the job Joseph is offered by a Shanghai friend, General Shang Chen?

4. What happens when Anna decides to read about her mother's diagnosis at the library?

5. What does Joseph find when he returns to his office on Yuen Thing Yuen Road?

6. What does Joseph end up telling Anna about the reason why they will not be living together in Shanghai?

7. What does Joseph's journalist friend confirm about the movement Joseph sees one night?

8. What does Anna hear her father tell her mother after he comes back to the house after the run-in at the restaurant?

9. What happens when Joseph opens the house on Hungjoa during this part of the story?

10. What does Anna notice about the behavior of Joseph once he returns to live with them?

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