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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 does Joseph love above anything else, so much so that he teaches his daughter about it?

2. What do Genevieve and Anna notice when they are shopping in the city?

3. What begins to return to normal after the Japanese take over in Shanghai?

4. Anna and Joseph go to Hsin Hung Chong where he needs to take a picture for an ___________ claim.

5. What does Anna get to drink on the morning of her seventh birthday?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Joseph say when Genevieve tells him that she has purchased tickets for the family to return to the United States?

2. What does Joseph feel about his money making opportunities outside of Shanghai?

3. How does Anna's mother feel about their home in Shanghai at the start of the book?

4. What do the men at the internment camp find out about the Japanese?

5. What does Anna begin to notice about her mother after living in Los Angeles for a while?

6. What happens after two Japanese are killed at the Hungjao airfield, according to the book?

7. What is the new business that Joseph becomes involved in once the Japanese have taken over?

8. What happens to the city after the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor on December 8?

9. What does Genevieve do on Anna's seventh birthday, as described in this section of the book?

10. Why does Gran tell Anna that things will get better, after Anna and her mother have moved to California?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Joseph decides to take a job in Shanghai and leaves his family once again when he receives the offer from a friend, now General, in China.

Part 1: Why do you think Joseph decides to get a job so far away?

Part 2: Do you think Joseph wants to be with his family anymore? Why or why not?

Part 3: How might Joseph have kept his family together?

Essay Topic 2

Joseph becomes poor as a result of the war time restrictions. He needs to sell the things that he owns in order to have money to live.

Part 1: How do you think Joseph feels about becoming poor?

Part 2: Do you think the rich should be made poor during times of war?

Part 3: Why do you think the government restricts the assets of the rich during the war time?

Essay Topic 3

Joseph is arrested and held in solitary confinement for his presumed crimes.

Part 1: Why do you think Joseph is arrested?

Part 2: Why do you think Joseph isn't killed during his imprisonment?

Part 3: What might be some of the effects of the time in solitary confinement?

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