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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15: Boarding School in Tianjin.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Big Sister do to keep her gift from Grand Aunt?
(a) She hands it to her future husband as a promise gift.
(b) She claims to lose it.
(c) She buries it in the backyard.
(d) She admits keeping the gift at Aunt Baba's insistence and hiding it from Niang.

2. Why are the brothers' haircuts much worse than the sisters'?
(a) They are forced to grow a ponytail.
(b) They are forced to have long, curly locks.
(c) They are shaved bald in the style of Buddhist Monks.
(d) They have to wear it in the military style.

3. Who meets them at the airport?
(a) Ye Ye.
(b) Big Sister.
(c) Niang's former teacher.
(d) Niang's brother Pierre Prosperi.

4. What does Adeline do that Niang says she will never forgive her for?
(a) For not yelling along with the other family members.
(b) For asking Niang to stop hitting Little Sister.
(c) For not preventing the break.
(d) For laughing when the item broke.

5. What does Niang demand from the children in exchange for tram fare?
(a) To clean the house and cook for the family.
(b) A job.
(c) Perfect grades.
(d) A sincere apology, admitting they have been wrong to get money from Ye Ye.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Adeline dropped off?

2. What does Aunt Baba request from Father and Niang?

3. Who gives Adeline and her siblings money for school initially?

4. What does Big Sister receive from her Grand Aunt?

5. How does Niang react when her daughter breaks the item?

(see the answer key)

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