Reading Check questions are designed for in-class review on key plot points or for quick verbal or written assessments. Multiple Choice and Short Answer Quizzes create ideal summative assessments, and collectively function to convey a sense of the work’s tone and themes.

Prologue-Chapter 4

Reading Check

1. Who is not invited to visit their father’s banker in the prologue and why?

2. How does Adeline’s mother die?

3. What business does Adeline’s father begin in Tianjin?

4. Aunt Baba prepares Adeline for what by the end of Chapter 4?

Multiple Choice

1. Why should the children be suspicious that Niang is lying about their father’s will?

A) Niang had already spent their inheritance.

B) Their father shared his will with them before he died.

C) Niang wants to control the amounts they each will receive.

D) Their father had been a man of great wealth and substance.

2. What did Adeline’s Great Aunt do to warrant the name Gong Gong (“Grand Uncle”)?

A) She wore men’s clothes and acted as a businessman.

B) She established a successful women’s bank run by women for women.

C) She joined the army and fought in the Opium War.

D) She founded an all-girls boarding school to teach women’s rights.

3. What can be inferred from Joseph’s decision to keep Ren at home after she gives birth?

A) He believes she is being melodramatic about her symptoms.