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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mah want to keep open, though Leila refuses to help, so Mah is forced to ask Luday?
(a) Her apartment
(b) Her marriage
(c) Her communication with Leon
(d) Baby Store

2. Who comes to the house, bringing comfort food and giving advice to the grieving family members?
(a) Church ladies
(b) Ovscaldo
(c) Mason
(d) Sewing ladies

3. What is Leila preparing for when she spreads out pieces of a bulletin board in the living room?
(a) New school year
(b) Meeting
(c) Open house
(d) Science Fair

4. What is the name of the person who Leila seems to remember is a backstabbing liar so she does not talk to her immediately?
(a) Seri
(b) Ann
(c) Christine
(d) Juliet

5. Mah believes that _______________ have changed her body and suggests she and Leon go into business together.
(a) Home births
(b) Rice bowls
(c) Back injuries
(d) Sweatshops

6. Tommie was a nervous wreck as he watched the sewing ladies on long ___________ breaks.
(a) Walk
(b) Tea
(c) Reading
(d) Prayer

7. What does Mah say she feels when Leila and Leon sit at the foot of Mah's bed?
(a) Confusion
(b) Nervousness
(c) Anger
(d) Despair

8. Who suggests a simple gathering after the cremation of Ona in order to mourn her death?
(a) Leon
(b) Mah
(c) Leila
(d) Nina

9. What kind of class is Leila preparing for when she is told of Ona's death?
(a) Science
(b) Music
(c) English
(d) Art

10. What does Mah do after Leila tells her the news about the suicide of Ona?
(a) Laugh
(b) Collapse
(c) Sing
(d) Pray

11. Leon wants to talk about _________ and about how much he loves her after the suicide.
(a) Leila
(b) Mah
(c) Ona
(d) Nina

12. Leon admits that he misses Mah's __________ and that he does not like his life without her in it.
(a) Hair
(b) Smile
(c) Laugh
(d) Cooking

13. Old timers believe that __________ comes from the mother and bones from the father.
(a) Flesh
(b) Heart
(c) Air
(d) Blood

14. Mah has no time for lunch and shows Leila how to install _____________ in the design.
(a) Zippers
(b) Pockets
(c) Heels
(d) Hems

15. After a few good years, Lyman is gone from Mah's life and she calls him ____________ about America.
(a) Talk Big Words
(b) Give Woman Nothing
(c) Choosing Lies
(d) Promise Great Things

Short Answer Questions

1. Always watching for business opportunities, Leon talks ___________ into running L.L. Grocery.

2. Who wants to have a fancy Chinese wake in order to commemorate the life of Ona in the neighborhood?

3. Ten-year-old ___________ does the most in order to get Leon to come back home to be a family.

4. The cop at the scene of the suicide writes down the address for _____________ for Leila.

5. Who does Leon plan to look up when he is in Australia during his trip on the seas?

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