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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. What kind of soldiers prevent Joseph from entering a particular area when walking on the Bund at night?
(a) Japanese.
(b) Refugee.
(c) Nationalist.
(d) Volunteer.

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

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

4. What is the new spelling of Anna and Genevieve's last name, according to this section of the book?
(a) Schoen.
(b) Shone.
(c) Scone.
(d) Shoene.

5. Who hosts a party to celebrate Anna and her husband's first wedding anniversary?
(a) Gran.
(b) Genevieve.
(c) Anna.
(d) Anna's husband's family.

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

3. At what time does Anna's father show up at her door on her birthday, bringing roses and perfume?

4. Genevieve tells Joseph that he needs to __________, but when he doesn't, she becomes upset.

5. Who posted the letter for Joseph, which is why it had been re-routed?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Joseph tell Anna about his life when they are at a nearby Chinese restaurant?

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

3. What happens when Genevieve and Anna decide to go to eat at Jimmy's?

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

5. Why wasn't Joseph as happy in California as he is when he is living in Shanghai?

6. Where do Jack and Anna live once they are married after she graduates from college?

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

8. What does Genevieve tell Anna about when she calls her in January 1954?

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

10. What does Genevieve show to Anna after the party for her and Jack?

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