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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. Leon and Mah tell Leila that education is the ____________ job in China, though Leila wants to remind them they are not in China anymore.
(a) Teacher's
(b) World's
(c) Principal's
(d) Student's

2. What is the surname that Leila is happy to have shed, as it sounds like 'bitter' in her dialect?
(a) Chung
(b) Yee
(c) Fu
(d) Chun

3. Where is Mason Louie's repair shop located in the city where Leon and Leila live?
(a) Mission
(b) Brooklyn
(c) The docks
(d) Japantown

4. Leon fumes about being criticized for his bad ____________ when he is talking with Leila and the interviewer.
(a) History
(b) English
(c) Luck
(d) Recordkeeping

5. What does Leila want to sign Leon up for, so she takes him over to the office in the city?
(a) Medicare
(b) Welfare
(c) Social Security
(d) Medicaid

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the daughters is a biological daughter of Lyman and Mah?

2. How many days do Leon's travels on the seas take up, during which Leila worries constantly?

3. Who is the one who tends to throw punches when he is talked to in a less than respectful way?

4. Mason can not endure the presence of Dale for a long time as he sounds so __________.

5. Leon claims the family's bad luck started when he broke his promise to return Grandpa Leong's _____ to China.

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Nina propose to help Leila with the situation with Mah?

2. Why does Nina not necessarily share in the crush that Zeke has on her according to this chapter?

3. What are some of the reasons why Leila's shoulders are tense, according to this chapter?

4. What does Leon ask Mason to do after Leon has taken two buses to get to Jorge's parking lot?

5. What does Leon want to do with his newly received $25 from working in the kitchen at the lunch rush?

6. What were the rumors that the boys at Nina's school used to spread about her and her dating life?

7. What just happened which gives the local Chinatown gossips another thing to talk about?

8. What does Leila help Mason do at the start of this chapter in order to deliver something to his cousin, Dale?

9. What are some of the obstacles that are standing in the way of Leon when he goes to visit the cemetery?

10. What do the girls do with the sqaubs when they eat them? What does Mah do with the waste?

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