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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 9, how old was the Wangs landlady?

2. In Chapter 8 at the sushi factory, what color plastic suit did a woman wear who took the bin of fish behind steel doors?

3. How old was Qian's father when he remembers shooting a toy gun and then seeing men hanged in a tree?

4. In China, what did Qian's family used to dip their dumplings in?

5. When the Wangs first had pizza, how many slices did they share?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Qian's parents do for her when she had chickenpox?

2. In Chapter 0, what happy memory did Qian have with her parents?

3. How did Qian and her mother get a visa to see Qian's father in America?

4. What happened to Wang Lao Shi's eldest brother?

5. How would Qian and her mother make phone calls to Qian's father when he was in the United States?

6. Who was assigned to help Qian in school in Chapter 6, and what did the girl tell her at lunchtime?

7. Why did Qian love libraries and books?

8. What did Qian's mother suffer from when traveling, and when was her sickness particularly bad?

9. How did Qian get transferred back to her first classroom when she was moved to a classroom for special needs children?

10. What did Qian and her mother do for Christmas?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

James Lombardi was a man who acted lasciviously toward women at the hair salon where Crane worked. How did he begin taking Crane and her family to McDonald’s? What did survival have to do with the Wangs accepting his company at McDonald’s?

Essay Topic 2

The Wangs decided to leave China. Why did the Wangs decide to leave China?

Essay Topic 3

What a reader knows about events and people is determined by the point of view in a book. What is the point of view in the book? How does the point of view influence what readers know about events and people?

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