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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who drives Anna and Genevieve to the train station to meet Joseph when he returns?
(a) Gran.
(b) Mei Wah.
(c) A taxi driver.
(d) No one.

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

3. Joseph decides that the ________ will not be able to control China, so he says where he is to make more money.
(a) Japanese.
(b) Communists.
(c) Liberation army.
(d) People.

4. How much of Joseph's money has been unfrozen as of New Year's Eve, helping him to take care of his family?
(a) $1000.
(b) $400,000.
(c) $5000.
(d) $100,000.

5. Where does Joseph often sleep, according to the description of his time in April, 1949?
(a) Nightclub.
(b) Office.
(c) Shelter.
(d) Outside.

Short Answer Questions

1. What magazine reveals the details of Joseph's imprisonment to Anna and Genevieve?

2. Genevieve tells Anna that according to newspaper articles, Joseph was released from prison and is now in __________.

3. What does Joseph send to Anna as a gift on her seventeenth birthday?

4. What do Anna and Genevieve do after mass one Sunday?

5. What does Joseph do for the family in order to help them out with their home?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Genevieve show to Anna after the party for her and Jack?

2. What does Joseph do when the government orders him to leave Hong Kong?

3. What is the job Joseph is offered by a Shanghai friend, General Shang Chen?

4. Where do Jack and Anna live once they are married after she graduates from college?

5. What does Joseph include in a brief letter to Anna in the months after Genevieve's funeral?

6. What doesn't Anna talk about as a part of her social life in South Pasadena?

7. What do prisoners have to do as a part of their imprisonment by the Communist government?

8. What happens when Anna decides to read about her mother's diagnosis at the library?

9. What does Joseph end up telling Anna about the reason why they will not be living together in Shanghai?

10. What is not in the letter that Genevieve receives from Joseph in May of 1942?

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