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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Leon wonders whether Ona was _________ or whether she was given drugs to cause her to jump.
(a) Crazy
(b) Not the girl who fell
(c) Still alive
(d) Pushed

2. Leon wants to blame someone for the suicide of Ona, so he blames _______________.
(a) Himself
(b) Mason
(c) Mah
(d) America

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

4. Ona makes ___________ real in their lives and talking helps them deal with this.
(a) Pain
(b) Sadness
(c) Bad luck
(d) Death

5. What is a fourth grader doing during the day of Ona's death which reminds Lelia of Ona?
(a) Jumping rope
(b) Hiding
(c) Smiling
(d) Crying

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

7. When the S.S. Independent docks, ____________ has cleaned the house, helped sew a dozen culottes, and heated lunch.
(a) Ona
(b) Mah
(c) Nina
(d) Leila

8. Ten-year-old ___________ does the most in order to get Leon to come back home to be a family.
(a) Nina
(b) Ona
(c) Mason
(d) Leila

9. Where did Mah and Leon get married, with Leila as the witness to the ceremony?
(a) Vallejo
(b) The courthouse
(c) Las Vegas
(d) Reno

10. What is the name of the person who Leila seems to remember is a backstabbing liar so she does not talk to her immediately?
(a) Christine
(b) Juliet
(c) Ann
(d) Seri

11. The cop at the scene of the suicide writes down the address for _____________ for Leila.
(a) The prison
(b) The police station
(c) The hospital
(d) The morgue

12. When the recess bell rings and Leila can have a few moments to herself, where does she go?
(a) Closet
(b) Bathroom
(c) Outside
(d) Teacher's lounge

13. Old timers believe that __________ comes from the mother and bones from the father.
(a) Blood
(b) Heart
(c) Air
(d) Flesh

14. Always watching for business opportunities, Leon talks ___________ into running L.L. Grocery.
(a) Leila
(b) Mason
(c) Mah
(d) Nina

15. After being unemployed for __________ months, Leon ships our and returns to widespread rumors.
(a) Three
(b) Twelve
(c) Six
(d) Ten

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Leon do after his big meal as things have been let go while he was at sea?

2. Mah has no time for lunch and shows Leila how to install _____________ in the design.

3. Where does Leila go in order to watch kites, sailboats, and Alcatraz?

4. What does Mason find to be too Chinesey, according to the recollection of Leila in this chapter?

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

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