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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ye Ye want from Adeline?
(a) To grow up differently from Big Sister.
(b) To confront Niang about her cruelty.
(c) A foot massage.
(d) To pay back the money he gave her.

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

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

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

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

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

7. What happens to the nicest gifts from Big Sister's wedding?
(a) They are donated to charity.
(b) Big Sister hides all of them at a friend's house.
(c) Niang keeps them for herself.
(d) They are sent back to Tianjin.

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

9. Where is Adeline dropped off by Niang and Fourth Brother?
(a) The Hong Kong School for Homeless Children.
(b) The Sacred Heart School and Orphanage.
(c) The Hong Kong School for the Gifted.
(d) The Sacred Blessings Orphanage.

10. Who greets her at her door when she returns home?
(a) Cook.
(b) Niang.
(c) Aunt Baba.
(d) Big Sister.

11. With which book are the children most fascinated?
(a) Moby Dick.
(b) Sinbad the Sailor.
(c) The paper cuts book given to Adeline by Mother Marie.
(d) Alice in Wonderland.

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

13. How old is Adeline when she leaves her home and is separated from her Aunt Baba?
(a) Fifteen years old.
(b) Thirteen years old.
(c) Eight years old.
(d) Ten years old.

14. Who discovers that Niang learns about the gift that Big Sister is hiding from her?
(a) Little Sister.
(b) Big Sister.
(c) Aunt Baba.
(d) Adeline.

15. Why does Adeline have to leave?
(a) She is expected home at lunchtime.
(b) She doesn't want to eat the cake.
(c) She is embarrassed that she did not bring a gift.
(d) She has ripped her dress.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Adeline believe she wins the class presidency?

2. How does Adeline sneak over to Wu Chun-mei's house?

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

4. 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?

5. What food does Adeline long for, but rejects as a mistake when she receives it?

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