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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. Why was May Ying evicted from her apartment?

2. What did Gok Lek become a ward of?

3. What did Sam encourage Yuen to do when he was seven?

4. Where was Ping's husband from?

5. Who wanted to buy Hing a coat when her mother was in Winnipeg?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Hing learn about her mother's death?

2. How did Nan die?

3. What did May Ying say led to Gok Leng's troubled times?

4. What did May Ying say in her letter to Hing after the 4 years of silence?

5. How did Sam die?

6. What did Sam do for Hing whenever he made a trip to Chinatown?

7. How did Hing recognize Yuen without ever meeting him before?

8. Why did Denise want her mother to travel through China with her?

9. What made John almost cancel his engagement to Hing?

10. What did the Communists force Yuen to do?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What are some of the ways Hing and John showed their love to each other, and how did these displays affect Denise's ideas about life?

Essay Topic 2

Courage and fear were two attributes that were seen a number of times in this book. Where did they appear, and how did the presence of these feelings change the people who were involved in those situations?

Essay Topic 3

What was Yuen's greatest desire at the end of the book, what was he willing to sacrifice for it, and why?

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