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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mah do after Leila tells her the news about the suicide of Ona?
(a) Laugh
(b) Pray
(c) Collapse
(d) Sing

2. Mah believes that _______________ have changed her body and suggests she and Leon go into business together.
(a) Sweatshops
(b) Rice bowls
(c) Back injuries
(d) Home births

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

4. After a few good years, Lyman is gone from Mah's life and she calls him ____________ about America.
(a) Choosing Lies
(b) Talk Big Words
(c) Give Woman Nothing
(d) Promise Great Things

5. ____________ does not offer to come to the home in Chinatown immediately when called.
(a) Osvaldo
(b) Nina
(c) Leon
(d) Leila

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

7. What does Mason find to be too Chinesey, according to the recollection of Leila in this chapter?
(a) The food
(b) Mah's store
(c) Ginseng
(d) Gambling

8. What does Mah say she feels when Leila and Leon sit at the foot of Mah's bed?
(a) Nervousness
(b) Despair
(c) Anger
(d) Confusion

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

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

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

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

13. What does Leon do after his big meal as things have been let go while he was at sea?
(a) Paints the outside of the house
(b) Prays
(c) Fixes things
(d) Plays the piano

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Leon wants to talk about _________ and about how much he loves her after the suicide.

2. Tommie was a nervous wreck as he watched the sewing ladies on long ___________ breaks.

3. After being unemployed for __________ months, Leon ships our and returns to widespread rumors.

4. ______________ doubts that Mah will want to go back to Hong Kong after being away for 25 years.

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

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