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

4. Why is Adeline put in classes with younger students?
(a) She is not as smart as the other girls.
(b) Because the older girls are cruel to her.
(c) To punish her.
(d) She cannot speak English very well.

5. Who is the only person to greet Adeline?
(a) Ye Ye.
(b) Aunt Baba.
(c) Little Sister.
(d) Father.

6. What plans does Niang have for Big Sister?
(a) To become a famous doctor.
(b) To marry her to a much older man.
(c) To have her take care of her in her old age.
(d) To have to escape to America.

7. 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) Chinese.
(b) French.
(c) English.
(d) Spanish.

8. What animal is Wu Chen-mei about to receive?
(a) A duckling.
(b) A pug.
(c) A fish.
(d) A bird.

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

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

11. How many people attend Big Sister's wedding?
(a) Five hundred.
(b) Thirty.
(c) Three hundred.
(d) One hundred.

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

13. What is Adeline's favorite part of the ship?
(a) The library.
(b) The sun-filled deck.
(c) Their cabin.
(d) The dining room with all the delicious food choices.

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

15. What do the siblings nickname the room where Little Sister and Fourth Brother live?
(a) Little Dominion.
(b) The antechamber.
(c) Little Holy.
(d) Hell.