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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 wants to adopt Adeline.
(d) She is moving in with them.

2. Who nearly plays a trick on Ye Ye?
(a) Third Brother.
(b) Little Sister.
(c) Fourth Brother.
(d) Second Brother.

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

4. Why is their election unusual?
(a) They are only allowed to have an election once every five years.
(b) They are permitted to elect their president democratically as in the United States of America.
(c) It is the first year they have permitted a class president.
(d) They will only allow a girl to win.

5. Which languages are highlighted in Hong Kong?
(a) French and Chinese.
(b) English and Chinese.
(c) French and English.
(d) English and Spanish.

6. What pact do Adeline and her two friends make to each other?
(a) That they will escape to America together.
(b) That they will get away, stand on their own two feet and create their own destiny.
(c) That they will remain best friends forever.
(d) That they will remain in Hong Kong forever.

7. What does Fourth Brother do while Adeline is stuck in her room?
(a) Slips her notes of encouragement under the door.
(b) Taunts her outside her door.
(c) Laughs and eats her piece of cake as she watches.
(d) Feeds leftovers from his afternoon tea to Jackie.

8. How does the family decide which child will sleep on the cot?
(a) They draw lots.
(b) They let the oldest child, Victor, have it.
(c) They give it to the boy, Victor.
(d) They play rocks, paper, scissors.

9. Why is Adeline suddenly panic-stricken when Ah Sun knocks on her door?
(a) There has been an accident with her Father.
(b) She warns Adeline that Niang has discovered that she won the class presidency.
(c) Her friends from school are downstairs asking for her and Niang and her Father are home.
(d) Ah Sun warns her that Niang is about to take her out of school and send her far away.

10. What does Adeline give Wu Chen-mei before she leaves?
(a) Her phone number.
(b) A hug.
(c) A poem.
(d) A small paper bird.

11. Where does Father and Niang take Adeline?
(a) Bejing.
(b) Shanghai.
(c) Tianjin.
(d) Hong Kong.

12. Where do the Shillings travel after they leave Hong Kong?
(a) Sydney.
(b) Mumbai.
(c) Austria.
(d) Geneva.

13. Which one of these things is NOT handed out to the class by Adeline's rival, Chen Lei-lei?
(a) Bookmarks.
(b) Beef jerky.
(c) Dragon eyes.
(d) Pencils.

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

15. Who meets the family at the gangplank?
(a) Big Sister.
(b) Father.
(c) Niang.
(d) No one.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Who is the first person at home who Adeline tells of her victory?

3. What do the siblings nickname the room where Little Sister and Fourth Brother live?

4. What does Ye Ye want from Adeline?

5. How much older is Big Sister's future husband than she?

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