In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson - February Quiz

"The sea was not calm, nor deep green like jade. It writhed like a fierce, black dragon with chili peppers up its snout."

What kind of figurative language is being used here?

• personification

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• similie

What made Mother unique?

• She was scared of extraordinary things but not everyday things.

• She was scared of babies but she helped when Precious Coins was born.

• She was scared of everyday things but not extraordinary things.

• She was scared of cockroaches but worked in the kitchen.

Mother and Shirley had to take a ship, a taxi, and then a train to meet Father.

• True

• False

Father is a(n)

• electrician

• engineer

• shopkeeper

• company employee

Shirley's new home in Brooklyn was bigger than the clan compound back in ChungKing.

• True

• False

What were the machines in the home that Shirley and Mother hadn't seen before in China?

• icebox

• lamps

• shower

• washing machine

Shirley Temple Wong got lost on her way home from

• the market

• the library

• the newspaper stand

• the park