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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who picks Adeline up from school after her first day?
(a) No one.
(b) Second Brother.
(c) Big Sister.
(d) Niang.

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

3. What does Adeline do that Niang says she will never forgive her for?
(a) For asking Niang to stop hitting Little Sister.
(b) For laughing when the item broke.
(c) For not yelling along with the other family members.
(d) For not preventing the break.

4. What does Big Brother warn Adeline from?
(a) Trusting Big Sister or telling her anything.
(b) That Niang is trying to get rid of her.
(c) That Big Sister is trying to get rid of her.
(d) That her food might be poisoned.

5. What do the Huangs bring the children?
(a) New pencils.
(b) New notebooks.
(c) Seven baby ducklings.
(d) Books.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the children refer to the floor where Father, Niang, Fourth Brother and Little Sister live?

2. Which countries did China fight against?

3. Why are the brothers' haircuts much worse than the sisters'?

4. What do the children receive for the Chinese New Year?

5. What do the other adults do when Niang reacts to her daughter?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe how Adeline gets to school on her first day.

2. Why does Aunt Baba say that she would like a job?

3. Describe how the children plot against Niang and the final result of their actions.

4. How does Adeline acquire food for PLT?

5. Why are Adeline and Wu Chen-mei perfect friends?

6. Why does Adeline come home with a medal on her uniform?

7. Why does Father give her a map and why is it significant?

8. Where is Adeline's mother?

9. Who does Father remarry after their mother dies?

10. Name three ways that Father and Niang institute their austerity program towards Adeline and her siblings (excluding Little Brother and Little Sister).

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