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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through How It Began to Chapter 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many steps did Qian remember climbing on Sunday nights to make a call to her father?
(a) 51.
(b) 34.
(c) 18.
(d) 29.

2. Where did Qian and her mother land in Chapter 2 for their first connection to America?
(a) South Korea.
(b) Vietnam.
(c) Japan.
(d) Thailand.

3. How old was Qian's father when he remembers shooting a toy gun and then seeing men hanged in a tree?
(a) 6.
(b) 5.
(c) 7.
(d) 4.

4. In Chapter 4, where did Qian and her family live?
(a) Bronx.
(b) Queens.
(c) Brooklyn.
(d) Manhattan.

5. How did Qian describe the landlady in Chapter 4?
(a) White.
(b) Puerto Rican.
(c) Cantonese.
(d) Black.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Qian and her parents took the train to see her father's grandparents, how many times would the food cart roll past them on the journey?

2. What color cloth covered the windows where Qian's mother started to work in Chapter 5?

3. Where did Qian's father go every week before he left for America?

4. How old was Qian's mother when she published two textbooks on mathematics and computer science?

5. In Chapter 2, where did Qian remember that she had a hamburger once?

(see the answer key)

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