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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 Doreen drop out of school?

2. What pleased Sam about Hing?

3. How did Hing curtail May Ying's bad habit when she moved in?

4. Where did the gift from Ping to Hing come from?

5. Why did Hing not want to go to China?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did Sam die?

3. What did the Communists force Yuen to do?

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

5. Why did Hing drop out of school?

6. What did Hing get sued for?

7. How did Denise find Hing's family?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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