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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 year is it at the beginning of Chapter 1?

2. Where did Cecily grow up?

3. Who tells Pao that Gloria has left the Thursday after Pao tells her about his marriage?

4. What color skirt does Esther wear for her school uniform?

5. What does Cicely serve to drink at Pao and Fay's wedding?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Zhang say that the Jamaicans riot?

2. How did Gloria's relationship with Pao become personal rather than simply business?

3. Who is Henry Wong?

4. Why doesn't Finley want to hire Samuels?

5. How does Fay treat Pao the week of their honeymoon?

6. How does Pao get news about Fay and her family since Fay keeps running back home?

7. How does Pao find a way to meet the Wongs?

8. How does Chin introduce Sergeant Brown for the Wholesale Provision Merchants' Association?

9. What does Clifton Brown help Pao arrange for Miss Cicely to do in Chapter 13?

10. Describe the priest that Fay begins seeing.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In Chapter 27, Pao and Cicely discuss Mui and Xiuquan. The objective of this lesson is to compare and contrast Mui and Xiuquan.

Essay Topic 2

Pao decides to put the gunrunners out of business in Chinatown. Discuss how Pao puts the gunrunners out of business.

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast the way that Fay and her mother treat people who are not of their social class.

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