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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 pleased Sam about Hing?

2. How did Yuen hope to get his daughter out of China?

3. What impressed Denise about Yuen?

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

5. Where was John transferred to for work?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Nan die?

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

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

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

5. What did Hing do when she was sued?

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

7. What was Huangbo chastised for by the Communists?

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

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

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

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 affect did gambling have on May Ying's life, and how did her family feel about this?

Essay Topic 3

Why did Sam move from China to Canada? Would you have done the same? Why or why not?

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