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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Genevieve do that causes them to make plans to move to Los Angeles?
(a) Packs her bags.
(b) Divorces Joseph.
(c) Buys tickets.
(d) Nothing.

2. Joseph is accused of witnessing a prisoner, _________, asking to have a letter smuggled out of the camp.
(a) Richard Fletcher.
(b) Will Masters.
(c) Mei Wah.
(d) Joe Masters.

3. What does Anna call Liu and Company, one of her favorite places to go on the trips with her father?
(a) Fruit basket.
(b) Paper store.
(c) Candy shop.
(d) Book shelf.

4. What does Anna's father say that he can leave her after he dies?
(a) His clothing.
(b) His money.
(c) His legal issues.
(d) His journals.

5. What is the date that Genevieve and Anna leave in order to make the trip to Los Angeles?
(a) January 13.
(b) January 25.
(c) January 4.
(d) January 24.

6. At what university were both of the parents in this story students when they first met?
(a) Vanderbilt.
(b) Yale.
(c) Harvard.
(d) Boston.

7. On _________ mornings, Joseph takes Anna to the Foreign Correspondents Club.
(a) Monday.
(b) Friday.
(c) Sunday.
(d) Saturday.

8. Joseph tells Anna that no matter what happens with Japan, they will be safe in the ______________.
(a) Internment camps.
(b) Villa.
(c) Border Town.
(d) International Settlement.

9. Foreigners cannot go outside the city limits after the Japanese attack on ______________.
(a) South Korea.
(b) Pearl Harbor.
(c) North Korea.
(d) China.

10. What did Joseph's parents do when he was growing up as a child?
(a) Missionaries.
(b) Smugglers.
(c) Teachers.
(d) Nothing.

11. In what sort of house does the family live when they are in Shanghai?
(a) Villa.
(b) Hut.
(c) Hovel.
(d) Mansion.

12. What city in China falls on July 28, 1937, according to the book's description?
(a) Peking.
(b) Shanghai.
(c) Beijing.
(d) No city falls.

13. What is the first place Genevieve and Joseph live after they have graduated college?
(a) New York.
(b) Los Angeles.
(c) Shanghai.
(d) Chicago.

14. How many other men are assigned to the same room that Joseph is assigned to?
(a) 30.
(b) 50.
(c) 100.
(d) 2.

15. What is signaled in the town which leads Genevieve to tell Mei Wah to take them home from shopping?
(a) Air raids.
(b) Attacks.
(c) Typhoon.
(d) War.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Joseph put into the safe before he and Anna leave to go shopping on the way home?

2. What does Joseph tell Anna the gendarmes are looking for in the city?

3. Questioning means _________, as Joseph learns from a young journalist who he had helped bring into the camp.

4. Joseph finds out that the bombings in the city had been a/an ____________.

5. Who begins to dress differently and to act differently than they used to in Shanghai?

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