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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Anna currently attends the University of __________ at Los Angeles at the time of the article.
(a) California.
(b) Berkeley.
(c) San Diego.
(d) San Francisco.

2. What does Anna do with the money that she receives from selling the gift Joseph gets her?
(a) Buys a car.
(b) Sends it back.
(c) Donates it to church.
(d) Burns it.

3. What does Anna receive from Joseph in the months after her mother's death?
(a) A brief letter.
(b) A ring.
(c) A gift certificate.
(d) A shoe.

4. What do Anna and Genevieve soon learn about the condition of Genevieve?
(a) She has leukemia.
(b) She is healthy for her age.
(c) She has arthritis.
(d) She has dementia.

5. __________ liberation army and the Chinese Nationalist troops are the two factions at war.
(a) Chinese.
(b) People's.
(c) Japanese.
(d) Mao's Peoples.

6. ___________ has begun to take place in China, causing more conflict in the area and more troubles for those living there.
(a) A new empire.
(b) Civil war.
(c) Peace.
(d) Economic downturn.

7. Where does Anna's mother eventually die after being hospitalized several more times?
(a) Hospice.
(b) Home.
(c) Anna's home.
(d) Church.

8. The government suddenly eliminates the _________ business, which is something Joseph did not expect.
(a) Army.
(b) Import.
(c) Money changing.
(d) Education.

9. For how long is Joseph in Chungking, according to this section of the story?
(a) 9 years.
(b) 11 months.
(c) 3 years.
(d) 15 months.

10. What magazine reveals the details of Joseph's imprisonment to Anna and Genevieve?
(a) Time.
(b) People.
(c) America.
(d) Life.

11. Who refuses to leave Hong Kong, which causes him to be arrested?
(a) William Masters.
(b) Chung Do.
(c) Mei Wah.
(d) Joseph.

12. Anna agrees to __________ in order to make her mother happy as she recuperates from her illness.
(a) Forgive Genevieve.
(b) Forget Joseph.
(c) Forgive Joseph.
(d) Smile.

13. Anna begins to work at the ________ library after she graduates from college and is married.
(a) Los Angeles.
(b) San Marino.
(c) Orange County.
(d) Pasadena.

14. Anna and Genevieve will be going to _________ in a month, even though Anna is not comfortable with this idea.
(a) San Francisco.
(b) Chicago.
(c) Shanghai.
(d) New York.

15. Joseph sees a group of ________ loading packages onto a freighter and wonders if this is the process of gold being moved.
(a) Stoogies.
(b) Children.
(c) Coolies.
(d) Women.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Joseph see being driven by a Chinese man, though he reclaims it in the name of the government?

2. Where does Joseph find the items that he has hidden before the war?

3. Genevieve learns that Joseph will arrive in _________ in mid-December after the conflict is over.

4. What is in the small teak box that Anna receives from her father after the birth of her second daughter?

5. What business has Joseph sold so that he could move to Bunker Hill in Los Angeles?

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