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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why are the siblings mad about their new gift?
(a) They cannot actually have the gifts until Father sees their report cards.
(b) They wanted more.
(c) They complain there is obvious inequality shown between the children.
(d) They didn't want anything from Niang.

2. Where does Ye Ye take Adeline and her siblings after Nai Nai's death?
(a) To the railroad station.
(b) To a boarding school.
(c) To a convent.
(d) To the beach.

3. Why does Adeline's relationship with PLT startle Aunt Baba?
(a) Adeline talks to it as if it were her baby sister.
(b) She ignores the duckling completely.
(c) She allows the duckling in the house.
(d) She worries for the duckling's safety.

4. Why is Adeline considered bad luck by her family?
(a) Because she is a girl.
(b) Because her Mama died giving birth to her and would still be alive otherwise.
(c) Because she was born with a mark on her back.
(d) Because she is the youngest child of the family.

5. How far away from Adeline's home is her school in Shanghai?
(a) Two miles.
(b) A mile and a half.
(c) Five hundred feet away.
(d) A mile away.

6. What is the name of the dog that greets the children and what type of dog is he?
(a) Jackie is a Doberman Pincher.
(b) Jermaine is a German Shepard.
(c) Mickey is a Pit Bull.
(d) Jackie is a German Shepard.

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

8. What does Adeline call her duckling?
(a) Mia
(b) PLT
(c) Jackie
(d) Lu lu

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

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

11. What changes about Big Sister after her move?
(a) She often races back up to be with her siblings.
(b) She stops eating and loses weight drastically.
(c) She becomes best friends with Miss Chien and Niang.
(d) She never stops crying.

12. How long has Adeline been in school at the start of Chapter 1?
(a) Two weeks.
(b) Two months.
(c) One month.
(d) One week.

13. How much younger is Niang than Adeline's father?
(a) Fourteen years.
(b) Twenty years.
(c) Fifteen years.
(d) Seventeen years.

14. Niang is half Chinese and half __________.
(a) French.
(b) Italian.
(c) English.
(d) Japanese.

15. Why did mothers bind their little girls' feet?
(a) No man would marry a woman with large, unbound feet.
(b) They didn't think women should have feet.
(c) They thought it was better for their health.
(d) They thought women shouldn't walk.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many children does Niang have?

3. Who picks Adeline up from school after her first day?

4. What injury does Big Sister have?

5. How old was Grandmother Nai Nai when her feet were bound?

(see the answer keys)

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