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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Aunt Reine, Uncle Jean, and their family go after they left Hong Kong?

2. What did Samuel Sung study at the university?

3. What was the name of a play that Adeline wrote?

4. How many guests attended Lydia and Samuel's wedding?

5. How old was Miss Chien when Joseph and Niang fled to Hong Kong?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was C. S. Tang?

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

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

4. Why did Adeline fear Edgar the most?

5. What was Ren Yong-ping's background?

6. What did Lydia and Samuel do when Father ordered them to move out of his house in Tianjin?

7. Why did Baba decide not to go to Hong Kong with Joseph?

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

9. How did Gregory solve his cash-flow problems?

10. Why didn't Aunt Baba tell Grand Aunt the real reason why she wanted her old job back?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Grand Aunt was an unusual woman for her time. Discuss the role of women in Chinese society in the late 1800s and the first two decades of the 1900s and how women in the book did or did not follow the dictates of society.

Essay Topic 2

Adeline married Byron six weeks after her arrival in America. Discuss the signs that indicated Adeline's marriage would end in divorce.

Essay Topic 3

Joseph broke the Confucian bond of filial piety by the way that he treated his father after Joseph's mother died. Discuss filial piety and how Ye Ye suffered because of Joseph's lack of respect.

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