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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Chinese word of the number of the building floor from which Ona jumped sound like?
(a) To smile
(b) To be free
(c) To live
(d) To die

2. What is Leila preparing for when she spreads out pieces of a bulletin board in the living room?
(a) Meeting
(b) Science Fair
(c) New school year
(d) Open house

3. Who does Leon plan to look up when he is in Australia during his trip on the seas?
(a) His ex-wife
(b) Johnny Bruce
(c) Jenny Chu
(d) Lyman Fu

4. Leon has told Leila how he is ___________ away his life and losing his dream.
(a) Traveling
(b) Sweating
(c) Wasting
(d) Rocking

5. What did the sewing ladies listen to during their breaks at the sweatshop?
(a) Pop music
(b) News radio
(c) Classical music
(d) Chinese operas

6. 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) Seri
(b) Juliet
(c) Christine
(d) Ann

7. The early years of Salmon Alley are a time of getting along by the ____________ virtues of loyalty, endurance, and hope.
(a) Simple
(b) Christian
(c) Japanese
(d) Confucian

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

9. What does Leila always do that bothers Mason, though she continues to do it?
(a) Says she's sorry
(b) Works too long of hours
(c) Eats American food
(d) Gets high

10. Leila remembers thanking the ______________ for offering her some time off.
(a) Police
(b) School board
(c) Principal
(d) Teacher's aide

11. Mah wants to put Ona's ________________ on Confucius' altar to commemorate her.
(a) Clothing
(b) Hair
(c) Ashes
(d) Books

12. What does Leila decide to do when Mason goes off to work after they party?
(a) Take a hot bath
(b) Go for a swim
(c) Grade papers
(d) Find Leon

13. What brings Leon home tanned, relaxed, and bearing gifts for the family?
(a) Train
(b) Yellow taxi
(c) Bus
(d) Bike

14. Leila and Mason are too wasted to go ______________ on Sunday, so they sleep late and head down to brunch on the coast.
(a) To work
(b) To the Wharf
(c) Sightseeing
(d) Wine tasting

15. Who suggests a simple gathering after the cremation of Ona in order to mourn her death?
(a) Mah
(b) Leila
(c) Nina
(d) Leon

Short Answer Questions

1. Mah admits her ___________ and says that she wants to be a family again with Leon.

2. What is a fourth grader doing during the day of Ona's death which reminds Lelia of Ona?

3. Who wants to have a fancy Chinese wake in order to commemorate the life of Ona in the neighborhood?

4. Nina calls the parenting style of Leon and Mah to be parenting _______________.

5. Born and raised in Chinatown, ___________ is sometimes proud of this heritage and sometimes not.

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