View a FREE sample

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many eggs did Gregory use to make an omelet when Father and Niang went to Tianjin?

2. During what years were westerners perceived throughout China as superior beings?

3. After she was elected class president, who ran into Adeline when she was sitting on the stairs waiting for Aunt Baba to come home?

4. When did Father, Niang, Franklin, and Susan leave for Hong Kong ahead of the Communists?

5. What did Samuel Sung study at the university?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How did Adeline get out of Tianjin and to Hong Kong?

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

5. How and why did Dr. Ting spurn an arranged marriage?

6. How did Adeline describe her father in the prologue?

7. Why did Hwa Chong Hong leave Tianjin in 1926?

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

9. How did James get out of China in 1951?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

"Falling Leaves" deals with Adeline's very unhappy family life. Discuss the overall mood of the book.

Essay Topic 2

Grandmother died at the age of fifty-five. Discuss Grandmother's death and how it affected Adeline.

Essay Topic 3

Ye Ye invested money in his son's company. Discuss how Ye Ye helped Joseph get his start and how Joseph repaid the favor.

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 786 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample