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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of threat was in China when Sam went to Canada after his son was born?
(a) War.
(b) Dishonor.
(c) Divorce.
(d) Threat.

2. Why did Sam get a stock pile of medicines in China?
(a) He knew he was sick.
(b) It made him look rich.
(c) He was worried about his family.
(d) They were unavailable in Canada.

3. What did Ping say about Huangbo?
(a) She was weak.
(b) She was simple minded.
(c) She was the better of her father's wives.
(d) She was honorable but quiet.

4. How was Hing related to Yuen?
(a) He was her half-brother.
(b) She was his aunt.
(c) They were cousins.
(d) He was her uncle.

5. Who paid for May Ying's passage?
(a) Her uncle.
(b) Her mother.
(c) The owner of the Peking House.
(d) Sam.

6. What grade did Hing repeat?
(a) 4th.
(b) 2nd.
(c) 3rd.
(d) 1st.

7. What was the Blue Funnel?
(a) A ship.
(b) A hotel.
(c) A business.
(d) A bus.

8. What part of town did Sam live in?
(a) The tenements.
(b) Downtown.
(c) Chinatown.
(d) Asian Province.

9. How did Hing stay in contact with her sisters?
(a) She made phone calls.
(b) She took pictures.
(c) She wrote letters.
(d) She made yearly trips.

10. What did Hing notice about the gift from her sister at the beginning of the book?
(a) She recognized it.
(b) It was stolen.
(c) She needed it.
(d) It was old.

11. Who smoothed over the blunders made in Sam's business?
(a) Ping.
(b) May Ying.
(c) Sam.
(d) Nan.

12. How did Huangbo act when her husband returned to China after leaving Hing?
(a) Haughty.
(b) Hungry.
(c) Happy.
(d) Humble.

13. Who did May Ying have an affair with?
(a) Jung.
(b) Jing.
(c) Jong.
(d) Jang.

14. Where did May Ying take Hing quite often when she was alone in Canada?
(a) Work.
(b) A tea house.
(c) The market.
(d) The opera.

15. What kind of medicine did Sam get large a stockpile of?
(a) Opium.
(b) Quinine.
(c) Aspirin.
(d) Ibuprofen.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did May Ying get the money her husband needed when he asked?

2. Who enrolled Hing in school?

3. What caused May Ying and Huangbo to be friends?

4. Why did May Ying want her son to be born in Canada?

5. Where did Sam move May Ying when he returned to Canada?

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