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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. How did May Ying start living with Guen?
(a) She claimed to be pregnant.
(b) She was evicted.
(c) He moved into the same building.
(d) He offered to buy Hing.

2. What did May Ying do to pay for Yuen's house?
(a) Invested money.
(b) Worked as a waitress.
(c) Borrowed money.
(d) Gambled.

3. Where did Denise move after her father's death?
(a) Siam.
(b) Vancouver.
(c) Peking.
(d) Hong Kong.

4. What did Hing want to be when she grew up?
(a) A teacher.
(b) A doctor.
(c) A mother.
(d) A painter.

5. Why did Huangbo's letters change after the war?
(a) She wanted Sam to come home.
(b) She was heavily taxed.
(c) She was too busy.
(d) She didn't want to get in trouble.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who found Ping for Hing?

2. What happened in China when the war broke out?

3. How did Ping recognize Hing when they met?

4. What did Denise say was the purpose for traveling in China with her mother?

5. How did most Chinese people view Yuen's deformity?

Short Essay Questions

1. What made John almost cancel his engagement to Hing?

2. What did Sam do for Hing whenever he made a trip to Chinatown?

3. What did May Ying say led to Gok Leng's troubled times?

4. How did Sam die?

5. What caused Doreen to drop out of school?

6. What did Sam sell of his daughter's, and what did this mean for them?

7. What did Sam want Ping to do when she left her husband, and why did she not do it?

8. Why did Denise want her mother to travel through China with her?

9. How did Hing's husband make a living?

10. What did the Communists force Yuen to do?

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