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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Aunt Reine surprise the family with when she arrives?
(a) She cuts diamonds from her coat buttons.
(b) She is pregnant.
(c) She is moving in with them.
(d) She wants to adopt Adeline.

2. Who does Adeline eat dinner with on Christmas Day?
(a) Mother Natalie.
(b) Aunt Baba.
(c) No one.
(d) Nancy Chen.

3. When do Niang's plans for Big Sister come to light?
(a) Chinese New Year 1948.
(b) On Big Sister's birthday.
(c) On her future husband's birthday.
(d) On Adeline's birthday.

4. Of the 1200 students at Sacred Heart, how many are boarders?
(a) Two hundred.
(b) Sixty-five.
(c) Five hundred.
(d) Eighty.

5. How does the family get to the new house in Hong Kong?
(a) By Father's large black Cadillac.
(b) By a rickshaw.
(c) By taxi.
(d) By walking.

6. Which one of these people is not on the journey to Hong Kong?
(a) Niang.
(b) Claudine.
(c) Aunt Reine.
(d) Victor.

7. Who greets Adeline when she awakens?
(a) Aunt Baba.
(b) Nancy Chen and her mother.
(c) Niang.
(d) Father.

8. Who is the most popular girl in school for her wealth and brains?
(a) Rachel.
(b) Agnes.
(c) Adeline.
(d) Monica Lim.

9. How does Adeline sneak over to Wu Chun-mei's house?
(a) There is a school holiday and she pretends to go to school, but goes to Wu Chen-mei's house instead.
(b) She feigns sickness and leaves school to go to Wu Chen-mei's house instead.
(c) She skips school.
(d) She sneaks out of the house without Niang seeing her.

10. What does Adeline do during a reading of King Lear in class?
(a) She screams and runs out of the room.
(b) She bursts out crying.
(c) She plugs her ears and begins to hum.
(d) She falls asleep.

11. Why does Wu Chun-mei beg Adeline to come to her house?
(a) She wants her to run away from her house.
(b) She wants to give Adeline her old clothes.
(c) She has never had a friend over before and wants Adeline to be the first one.
(d) She is having a birthday party.

12. How much older is Big Sister's future husband than she?
(a) Ten years older.
(b) Two years older.
(c) Thirty years older.
(d) Twice her age.

13. Which of these languages is not one of the three languages Ye Ye predicts will be left when all the world languages are distilled into just three?
(a) French.
(b) English.
(c) Chinese.
(d) Spanish.

14. Which board game do the children play while traveling?
(a) Monopoly.
(b) Backgammon.
(c) Sorry.
(d) Life.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the ship they are sailing on?

2. Why is the next school day very special?

3. How does Adeline feel after winning the class presidency?

4. What does Adeline give Wu Chen-mei before she leaves?

5. What two things does Father forget about Adeline?

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