WHO
WHAT
WHEN
WHERE
WHY
100
Who is the author?
What is Bette Bao Lord
100
What does Shirley think she represents when she goes into school?
What is China
100
When does Shirley's father give her roller skates?
What is during spring break
100
Where does Shirley move to?
What is Brooklyn
100
Why is it awkward for Shirley when she starts school?
What is she does not speak English
200
Who is the youngest cousin in the Wong family? (grandmother's favorite)
What is Precious Coins
200
What does Shirley perform during class for her poem recital?
What is a Mickey Mouse record
200
When does Shirley get her own bed?
What is August/ summertime/ while S. Rodriguez is away
200
Where does Shirley think there are monsters?
What is the basement
200
Why can't Señora Rodriguez return to her home country?
What is a bad man stole her rent money when she left the house in Brooklyn
300
Who is Señora Rodriguez?
What is the piano lesson teacher and the landlady
300
In Shirley's dream about China, what does she dream her uncle paints her as?
What is a weird looking bird
300
Where do Shirley and Emily find the magazines with the naked people?
What is Emily's dad's office
300
Why do the kids in her class call Shirley "Jackie Robinson?"
What is because she is a good baseball player
400
Who gives Shirley two black eyes?
What is Mabel
400
What is Shirley in her school play?
What is a turkey
400
When does Grandfather send moon cakes?
What is the Mid-Autumn Festival
400
Where does the family pretend they are when Shirley retells grandfather's story?
What is China with their family
400
Why does Shirley miss the Dodgers' championship game?
What is the triplets she watches unplug the radio
500
Who is the guest at the school assembly?
What is Jackie Robinson
500
What exciting news does Shirley get about her mother?
What is she is pregnant
500
When is the year of the boar?
What is 1947
500
Upon the news of a new baby brother, where does Shirley want to pass her wisdom down from?
What is the US and China
500
Why does Shirley say she can't be president?
What is because she wasn't born in the US
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