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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old was Adeline's mother when she died?
(a) 31.
(b) 25.
(c) 30.
(d) 27.

2. How many siblings did Grand Aunt have?
(a) Six.
(b) Four.
(c) Three.
(d) Five.

3. How much of her salary did Aunt Baba give Ye Ye?
(a) 1/4.
(b) 3/4.
(c) 1/2.
(d) 1/3.

4. How much money had Baba given Adeline that Adeline intended to use for a school mate's birthday present?
(a) Silver dollar.
(b) 5 dimes.
(c) 20 nickels.
(d) Gold dollar.

5. Where did Adeline's father die?
(a) Memorial Hospital.
(b) Hong Kong Sanatorium.
(c) Community Hospital.
(d) Kowloon Sanatorium.

6. Where did Lydia, her husband, and his parents flee in January 1949?
(a) Canada.
(b) Hong Kong.
(c) England.
(d) Taiwan.

7. What was the name of a play that Adeline wrote?
(a) The Bank.
(b) The Orchard.
(c) Grasshopper War.
(d) Gone with the Locusts.

8. How old was Adeline's grand aunt when she refused to have her feet bound?
(a) Three.
(b) Four.
(c) Six.
(d) Five.

9. When did Samuel Sung return to China after studying in America?
(a) 1948.
(b) 1949.
(c) 1951.
(d) 1950.

10. What killed Adeline's grandmother?
(a) Stroke.
(b) Heart attack.
(c) Lung cancer.
(d) Pneumonia.

11. When did Chairman Mao proclaim the founding of the People's Republic or China?
(a) November 1, 1949.
(b) September 1, 1949.
(c) August 1, 1949.
(d) October 1, 1949.

12. When was Hong Kong ceded to the British?
(a) 1854.
(b) 1849.
(c) 1837.
(d) 1842.

13. On the train, how long a journey was it for Aunt Baba to go from Shanghai to Tianjin?
(a) Two weeks.
(b) One week.
(c) Three days.
(d) Two days.

14. How old was Jeanne when she married Joseph?
(a) 19.
(b) 21.
(c) 17.
(d) 20.

15. What time did Adeline and her siblings gather to hear the reading of their father's will?
(a) 5:30 p.m.
(b) 2:30 p.m.
(c) 3:30 p.m.
(d) 4:30 p.m.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Joseph buried?

2. When Adeline attended medical school, what percentage of students were female?

3. What type of top was on the large, oval table that Adeline, her siblings, and her stepmother gathered around?

4. Jeanne's mother was from ______________.

5. When did Adeline's father die?

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