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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long have Father, Niang and Fourth Brother been living in Shanghai before the surprise outing?
(a) Three weeks.
(b) Three months.
(c) Three years.
(d) A year and a half.

2. Where does Aunt Baba place treasured items?
(a) In her safe-deposit box.
(b) Under her mattress.
(c) In a secret compartment in the closet.
(d) Behind a clock on the wall.

3. Who does Little Sister prefer when she arrives in Shanghai?
(a) Aunt Baba.
(b) Third Brother.
(c) Adeline.
(d) Niang.

4. What does Niang do after overhearing the conspiracy between the siblings?
(a) She moves Big Sister to the second floor.
(b) She sends all of the children away.
(c) She sends Adeline to a convent.
(d) She calls them all liars in front of their Father that night at dinner.

5. What is Adeline's favorite fruit?
(a) Mangoes.
(b) Apples.
(c) Pears.
(d) Dragon's eyes.

6. How long have bound feet been a tradition in China?
(a) For two hundred years.
(b) For over a thousand years.
(c) For a hundred years.
(d) For twenty years.

7. Who helps Adeline to bury PLT?
(a) Niang.
(b) Aunt Baba.
(c) Third Brother.
(d) Big Sister.

8. What injury does Big Sister have?
(a) She has a clubbed foot.
(b) She is missing fingers on her left hand.
(c) Her left arm was paralyzed from a birth injury.
(d) She is dyslexic.

9. What do the children receive for the Chinese New Year?
(a) Money.
(b) A puppy.
(c) New books.
(d) New clothes.

10. Why does Adeline realize that she is all alone and no one is looking out for her?
(a) She has no friends in the new city.
(b) No one realized she hadn't returned home from school.
(c) Her father tells her this.
(d) Her Aunt Baba warns her of this.

11. What does Aunt Baba notice about Adeline as soon as she gets home from school?
(a) She has gotten into a fight.
(b) She has torn her dress, which will infuriate her stepmother.
(c) She cut her hair.
(d) She has a silver medal dangling from her uniform.

12. What grade is Adeline in at the start of Chapter 1?
(a) First grade.
(b) Third grade.
(c) Second grade.
(d) Kindergarten.

13. Who nearly runs into Niang, listening covertly outside the bedroom door?
(a) Big Sister.
(b) Third Brother.
(c) Second Brother.
(d) Adeline.

14. How long after Adeline's mother dies does her father remarry?
(a) Two months.
(b) One month.
(c) One year.
(d) Two years.

15. What does Big Brother suggest they do with PLT instead of burying it?
(a) Plant it under the roses for fertilizer.
(b) Stew it for breakfast.
(c) Feed it to Jackie.
(d) Put it in the trash can.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Niang demand from the children in exchange for tram fare?

2. How far away from Adeline's home is her school in Shanghai?

3. What does Big Sister suggest after hearing Third Brother's revelation?

4. How long ago has the custom of bound feet been abandoned by the time Grandmother Ye Ye talks with Adeline?

5. How does Adeline react when PLT is killed?

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