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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Nina takes the urn to ____________, Mah gets upset and hides it from sight.
(a) Salmon Alley
(b) The Mission
(c) Baby Clothes
(d) The cemetery

2. Frank Jow sent a telegram to _______________, hoping it would give Leon enough time to come home for Leong's funeral.
(a) New York
(b) Beijing
(c) Osaka
(d) San Francisco

3. Leon could leave Mah at any time, but he tries to find a ____________, like his buddies.
(a) New business
(b) Steady sea assignment
(c) Lucky break
(d) Land job

4. Leon offers to back Mason if he wants to start up a business with _________.
(a) Jorge
(b) Dale
(c) Leon
(d) Zeke

5. What does Leila reveal to Leon about Nina's life, though she makes him promise not to tell Mah?
(a) Nina has a boyfriend
(b) Nina is coming home
(c) Nina is moving to China
(d) Nina is pregnant

Short Answer 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.

2. Since Nina is home, Leila is living ________________ though she plans to stay at Salmon Alley.

3. What is the surname that Leila is happy to have shed, as it sounds like 'bitter' in her dialect?

4. Fu and Mah used to live in an apartment when they were together right above Tommie Hom's ___________.

5. Leila muses that her sister must have a map of ___________ in her head, while Leila only has Chinatown.

(see the answer key)

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