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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. How close was the hotel where Bob and Adleine stayed in Shanghai to the Sheng Xin primary school that Adeline had attended?

2. How much did Father pay Gregory and James to work for him?

3. Where did Adeline receive an offer of an obstetrics residency in America?

4. When did Adeline visit her Aunt Baba for the last time?

5. When did Adeline fly to Hong Kong in Chapter 15?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Adeline learn about Byron shortly after they married?

2. How was Aunt Baba when Adeline saw her in March, 1994?

3. What did Gregory tell Adeline about boy/girl relationships?

4. What did Bob Mah have to do during Pearl Harbor?

5. What did Joseph say was the happiest time of his life?

6. What did Aunt Baba do after Joseph, Niang, and their family left?

7. What advice did Father give Adeline when he and Niang visited California when she was married to Byron?

8. What did the biopsy report reveal about Niang's illness?

9. What did Lydia want from Adeline?

10. Why did Mr. Lu say that no friends would come to Niang's funeral?

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

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.

Essay Topic 3

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

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