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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What color is the front door of Pao's new home?
(a) Red.
(b) White.
(c) Blue.
(d) Black.

2. How did Samuels die?
(a) Drowned.
(b) Shot in the back of the head.
(c) Shot in the stomach.
(d) Run over by a car.

3. Who made it possible for Xiuquan to talk to his mother on the phone before the kidnapping?
(a) Cecily.
(b) Daphne.
(c) Gloria.
(d) Father Michael.

4. How old is Pao when he feels like he has become a man?
(a) 35.
(b) 21.
(c) 40.
(d) 18.

5. How many months after Father Michael becomes archbishop is Esther married?
(a) 3.
(b) 4.
(c) 2.
(d) 5.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 23, during what year was there open warfare on the streets of Kingston?

2. Who was the father of Miss Cecily's first son?

3. What type of candy does Pao take to Margaret Morrison when he visits her and the baby?

4. In a two-hour period on West Kingston street, how many rounds of ammunition were fired?

5. What did Xiuquan take from a store that got him arrested?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Miss Cecily propose be done with the grocery business after Henry Wong dies?

2. What does Henry Wong know about Kenneth's business?

3. Under what conditions does Pao get permission to write his children?

4. In Chapter 34, why is Mui so desperate to return to Jamaica?

5. How is Zhang's body prepared for burial?

6. Why did Mutt and Jeff, the two troublesome police constables, get kicked off the force?

7. What is rural Jamaica like?

8. Who moves with Pao to Beverly Hills?

9. What was it like when the children were at Lady Musgrave Rd.?

10. What does Father Michael tell Pao about becoming John Morrisson's godfather?

(see the answer keys)

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