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

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

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

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

5. Why does Adeline believe she wins the class presidency?
(a) Because the other rival is too unorganized.
(b) Because Wu Chun-mei pays the other girls to vote for Adeline.
(c) Due to Wu Chun-mei's popularity.
(d) Because the other rival quit.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Adeline dropped off?

2. Where does Ye Ye go every morning at eight o'clock?

3. 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?

4. Who nearly plays a trick on Ye Ye?

5. Which one of these things is NOT handed out to the class by Adeline's rival, Chen Lei-lei?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Adeline fantasize about at night?

2. Why does Adeline reject the egg she is finally given? What reason does she give for not eating it?

3. Describe what happens when Adeline arrives home for lunch.

4. Describe what happens shortly after Adeline returns home after winning the class presidency.

5. Describe the scene when the Shilling family and Adeline arrive at the Shanghai household.

6. Describe Adeline's outing with Fourth Brother and Niang, including its final destination for her.

7. How does Adeline finally leave St. Joseph's?

8. Describe the political situation when Adeline boards the plane for Tianjin.

9. Describe the scene at Big Sister's wedding.

10. What does Adeline attribute her victory to?

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