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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 did Ping marry someone below her status?

2. Who was with May Ying while she did not communicate with Hing?

3. What was Hing put in charge of when her mother returned from Winnipeg?

4. Where did Huangbo go for food during the war?

5. How far away was John transferred for work after Sam's death?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Ping do when she learned her husband had a mistress?

2. How did Hing's husband make a living?

3. How did Hing try to stop May Ying from drinking when she lived in her house?

4. What did Yuen say was the most important thing to him in his life?

5. What was the gift Ping gave to Hing, and what did it signify?

6. What did Sam sell of his daughter's, and what did this mean for them?

7. What turned Gok Leng's life around from his trouble causing?

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

9. What changed in Huangbo's letters after the war, and why?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

Friendship is a strong theme throughout the book. Where are some places that this theme appears, and how do the people touched by it react? How do certain friendships change over the course of the book, and what causes these changes?

Essay Topic 3

Death and mortality were two integral themes of this plot. What are some of the key examples of this theme, and how did the presence of this theme affect the main characters?

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