FAMILY & HOME
This is what Adeline's siblings called her, blaming her for their mother's death.
Bad luck
Adeline won this ______ at her Tianjin school, as she came first in her class.
Medal
Adeline felt this way when none of her family came to pick her up after school while classmates were collected.
Forgotten / abandoned
The memoir begins with the family living in this northern Chinese city.
Tianjin
This is the central reason Adeline's siblings resented her from birth.
Her mother died shortly after giving birth to Adeline, so they blamed her for the death
Adeline's father married this woman after her mother died, bringing a cruel stepmother into the family.
Niang- who's Eurasian
Adeline attended this _________ school in Shanghai run by Catholic nuns.
Sacred Heart
Adeline poured her loneliness and longing into this ________ throughout her childhood.
Writing
The family relocated to this city after Tianjin
Shanghai
Why did the family have to move to Shanghai?
The Japanese was after their family business
True or False: Niang favored these two children above all others in the household.
True
What was Adeline's greatest passion and she excelled in it above all others?
Writing / Chinese and English composition
Adeline felt closest to this one family member who showed her consistent warmth and love.
Aunt Baba
The family's home in Shanghai was ________
A wealthy / foreign concession area — a large house with servants
Who died in Chapter 4?
Nai nai (Grand mother)
Niang established her cruelty early by denying Adeline and older siblings this basic comfort given to her own children.
New clothes / equal allowances / the same food and pocket money
Adeline clung to this one hope that kept her going despite all hardship.
That she could escape through education / that her writing and studies would one day set her free
When Niang stripped Adeline of her allowance and freedom, Adeline compared her situation to this fairy tale figure.
Cinderella (a Chinese Cinderella)
Who lived in the first floor?
Father, Niang and their two children
What caused Niang to hate Adeline event more?
She stopped Niang from hitting Susan
How did Niang the children's "unity" or 'loyalty towards each other?
By recruiting their 'leader' - Big sister to her side.
What was the first thing Adeline wrote about at school?
Her Anut Baba as she didn't have any "best friend" to write about.
How does Adeline feel when she is at school compared to when she is at home? Compare the way people treat Adeline in both settings.
At home, Adeline feels lonely, unwanted, and nervous because her family criticises and excludes her. At school, she feels happier and more accepted because teachers praise her hard work and achievements.
Where was their new house in Shanghai located?
In the French concession
Why Adeline would not go to Niang to beg from tram fare?
She thinks it doesn't seem right to betray Yeye as he has been giving it to her.