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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 impressed Denise about Yuen?

2. What did Gok Lek do to become a ward of something?

3. Who found Ping for Hing?

4. What caused Hing to call her mother in Winnipeg?

5. Why did Denise move after her father's death?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Denise find Hing's family?

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

3. What did Sam want Ping to do when she left her husband, and why did she not do it?

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

5. What was Huangbo chastised for by the Communists?

6. Why did Hing drop out of school?

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

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

9. What were the biggest stumbling blocks for the relationship between Hing and John?

10. Why did Hing not want to travel through China with Denise?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How did the relationship between Hing and her father change throughout the course of the story, and how did these changes affect the people around them?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Who was the more honorable woman between Huangbo and May Ying, and why?

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