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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. What nationalities were Jeanne's parents?

2. Where did Adeline sleep the few times she was allowed to go home when she lived at Sacred Heart?

3. Where were the nuns from who ran Sacred Heart Convent School and Orphanage?

4. How far was Sacred Heart primary school from Adeline's home?

5. When did Ye Ye die?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What happened to Adeline's duckling?

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

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

6. Why, even at the time the book was written, did Shanghai's architecture reflect the influence of foreign traders?

7. Who was C. S. Tang?

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

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

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

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

Discuss Gregory's role in his father's business and why Gregory was dismissed and banished from Father's enterprises.

Essay Topic 3

Adeline broke off her relationship with Karl and returned to Hong Kong. Discuss Adeline's relationship with Karl and why she had to leave to end it.

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