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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. What did Qian's mother teach in China?

2. Where did Qian's father's boss in Chapter 8 go to law school?

3. When Qian would ride home after preschool with her mother on her bike, what did Qian always like to get to eat?

4. At the sushi factory, what color plastic did workers wear?

5. When Qian and her family flew to America, how many days before was her seventh birthday?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where did Qian and her parents live in Chapter 4?

2. How did Qian and her mother get off the plane in Japan?

3. In Chapter 5, what jobs did Qian and her mother get?

4. What was it like working for Qian's mother working at the sushi-processing plant?

5. In Chapter 6, when and why did Qian stop believing her father?

6. What happened the first time that Qian and her mother went grocery shopping after her father left?

7. What does Qian say about arriving in the United States and her life there in "How It Began"?

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

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

10. How did Qian become vindictive in Chapter 7?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe Ojan's relationship with the library and what it represented to her.

Essay Topic 2

Qian began riding home on the subway alone after school. How did Qian use street smarts and common sense to keep herself safe on her rides home?

Essay Topic 3

Qian and her mother worked hard to have better lives. How did they work hard to make better lives? What barriers did they face in their efforts? How did tenacity help them not give up and achieve better lives?

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