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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Zeke makes a rule about not taking __________ from friends.
(a) Lovers
(b) Help
(c) Advice
(d) Money

2. Leila does not want the big ___________ that Mah insists on having to meet her obligations to relatives.
(a) Wedding banquet
(b) New Year
(c) Honeymoon
(d) Ceremony

3. Where does Mason help out by installing the rest of the fluorescent lights that Leon did not complete?
(a) Sweatshop
(b) Baby Store
(c) Church
(d) Apartment

4. Mason warns Leila that if ___________ is not home, he will stay no more than half an hour.
(a) Leon
(b) Aunt Lily
(c) Mah
(d) Nina

5. Who has cut her hair very short when they were out of town--like a boy according to Leon?
(a) Nina
(b) Mah
(c) Leila
(d) Ona

6. How many times to Leila and Nina clink their glasses together in order to encourage good luck?
(a) Two
(b) Seven
(c) Once
(d) Three

7. What is the American restaurant the sisters go to in order to avoid Chinatown?
(a) The Buckle
(b) Santa Fe
(c) Cattleman's
(d) McDonalds

8. ___________ likes to drive fast, but he always drives safely, which puts Leila at ease during the trip down the peninsula.
(a) Zeke
(b) Dale
(c) Leon
(d) Mason

9. What does Leon threaten to do when Mah calls him useless after he puts only half the lights up at the store?
(a) Jump off the Golden Gate
(b) Leave her forever
(c) Jump off the Brooklyn Bridge
(d) Take Ona's ashes away

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

11. When Grandpa Leong dies, he leaves a ______________ soaking in a bottle of herbs.
(a) Snake
(b) Flower
(c) Fish
(d) Pigeon

12. Since Ona killed herself, it has been too hard for __________ to live with Mah on Salmon Alley.
(a) Leila
(b) Mason
(c) Nina
(d) Leon

13. Leon and Mah tell Leila that education is the ____________ job in China, though Leila wants to remind them they are not in China anymore.
(a) Student's
(b) Principal's
(c) World's
(d) Teacher's

14. Normally when Leila comes to visit Leon, what does he make for her to drink during their time together?
(a) Scotch on the rocks
(b) Coffee
(c) Warm milk
(d) Tea

15. Who is Leila's favorite of all of Leon's fleabag friends, so she seeks him out to find Leon?
(a) Nam Ping Yuen
(b) You Thin Toy
(c) Terrence Bay
(d) Mason Louie

Short Answer Questions

1. Who rescues Leila after a tense phone call with Mah about Nina and about Leila's decision to live with Mason?

2. Where must Mason deliver the car in order to get it to his cousin, Dale?

3. Frank Jow sent a telegram to _______________, hoping it would give Leon enough time to come home for Leong's funeral.

4. Leon keeps everything because he believes that _____________ is sacred and can only be thrown away in a sacred way.

5. For how many years have Leila and her new husband been together before they married?

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