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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. From where did Samuel Sung earn a master's degree?
(a) Purdue University.
(b) Drake University.
(c) Michigan State.
(d) Notre Dame University.

2. How old was Miss Chien when Joseph and Niang fled to Hong Kong?
(a) Mid-thirties.
(b) Mid-forties.
(c) 27.
(d) 50.

3. How many children did the Shanghai police once find chained to the wall of a tin factory?
(a) 30.
(b) 40.
(c) 35.
(d) 25.

4. How far was Sacred Heart primary school from Adeline's home?
(a) 1 1/2 miles.
(b) 1 3/4 miles.
(c) 3/4 mile.
(d) 1/2 mile.

5. How many civilians and prisoners of war were tortured and killed during the Rape of Nanking?
(a) 50,000.
(b) 75,000.
(c) 100,000.
(d) 300,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. At what restaurant was Adeline allowed to eat in Chapter 8?

2. How many students were at Sacred Heart?

3. When did Chairman Mao proclaim the founding of the People's Republic or China?

4. How old was Adeline's mother when she died?

5. When did Britain demand and receive a 99 year lease on the Kowloon peninsula?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Ye Ye say that Adeline was being sent to Tianjin rather than Hong Kong?

2. What did Father decide about Adeline's future after she won a play writing competition?

3. What happened in 1939 when dikes on the Yellow River were deliberately dynamited?

4. How and why did Mis Chien try to curry Aunt Baba's favor after Joseph and Niang left for Hong Kong with their children?

5. Where did Adeline, her siblings, and her stepmother gather for the reading of Joseph's will?

6. What business did Grand Aunt's eldest brother establish?

7. Why did Niang and Father tell Lydia that she had to marry?

8. In the late 1920s, how was Shanghai different from the rest of China?

9. What happened when a group of girls from Adeline's school came to her house after Adeline became class president?

10. What sibling was absent from the reading of the will and not listed in Joseph's obituary?

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