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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Mah admits her ___________ and says that she wants to be a family again with Leon.
(a) Guilt
(b) Abortion
(c) Multiple affairs
(d) Innocence

4. Since Nina is home, Leila is living ________________ though she plans to stay at Salmon Alley.
(a) By herself
(b) At a shelter
(c) With Mason
(d) In her car

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mason call Mah when she comes home from her hair appointment?

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

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

4. What has Leila sketched for the students to fill in during their afternoon class?

5. Leon wants to blame someone for the suicide of Ona, so he blames _______________.

Short Essay Questions

1. Who does Leon blame for the death of Ona and for his overall discontent with life in this chapter?

2. What is the advice that Soon-ping, a sewing lady, gives to Mah after the death of Ona?

3. What have the women done by the time the S.S. Independent docks at the shore?

4. Things have changed after the affair. What are Leon and Mah like after the affair with Tommie Hom?

5. After Mah finds a new job at Ching's, Leon goes away to a trip on the sea to Australia. What happens to Mah's job when he is away?

6. What does ten-year-old Ona do in order to get Leon to come back home after hearing about the affair?

7. What does Mah want to do in order to prepare herself for the homecoming of Leon?

8. To what does Leila compare the feeling of time rushing forward and then snapping still?

9. What does Mah say about the affair she had and whether she wants to get back together with Leon?

10. What are the Confucian virtues, according to the start of this chapter?

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