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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. After his marriage to Ren, what type of car did Joseph buy for himself?

2. After the collapse of the Kumomintang army in Manchuria, by how much did Tianjin's population swell?

3. How many students were at Sacred Heart?

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

5. How many civilians and prisoners of war were tortured and killed during the Rape of Nanking?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Lydia's brothers and half brother dress for the wedding?

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

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

4. Why was it unusual that Ye Ye would have to negotiate with Niang for their allowance?

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

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

7. Who was C. S. Tang?

8. Why did Adeline fear Edgar the most?

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

10. How did Adeline describe her grandfather Ye Ye in Chapter 1?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Adeline's relationships with her siblings and how Niang interfered with the relationships that Adeline had with her siblings.

Essay Topic 2

Franklin contracted a type of polio and died. Discuss Franklin's death and how it changed Joseph and Niang and their relationship with one another.

Essay Topic 3

Adeline took a position that her father had secured for her. Discuss why Adeline took a position that her father had secured for her rather than a job she had found for herself.

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