| Adeline's Life | Adeline's Family | Vocabulary used in | Adeline's Hardships | Quotes of Adeline's Family |
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PLT (Precious Little Treasure)
What was Adeline's pet ducklings name?
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Seven
How many siblings did Adeline have (including her step siblings)?
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Jade is a precious stone used in jewelry and many other things?
What is Jade?
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The communist had won the war
Why did all the students at St. Joseph's boarding school leave accept Adeline?
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Adeline
Who promised Ye Ye that "things are bound to get better." "One day things will be different." "Life won't go on like this forever." "I don't know when, how, or what, but I will come back and rescue you from this." "I promise".
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Ye Ye and Aunt Baba
Which two characters in "Chinese Cinderella" cared about Adeline the most?
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Nai Nai's Mother bound Nai Nai's feet up when she was younger.
What caused Nai Nai to hobble painfully?
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abrupt in manner, quickly, sharply, blunt
What is the definition of brusquely?
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Niang and Father thought Aunt Baba was a bad influence to Adeline.
Why was Adeline taken away from Aunt Baba?
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Nai Nai
"When I was three years old, a tight bandage was wound around my feet, bending the toes under the sole and crushing the arch so that my feet would remain small all my life."
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St. Joseph's and Sacred Heart
What was the name of the two boarding schools Adeline attended?
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The third floor
What floor did Niang place Adeline and her siblings on (not including Adeline's step siblings)
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to humiliate or shame, embarrassed
What is the definition of mortified?
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Ye Ye
Who died while Adeline was at Sacred Heart?
(Adeline loved this person very much) |
Adeline
“I read because I have to. It drives everything else from my mind. It lets me escape to find another world.”
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Adeline wins the play-writing contest
How does Adeline get enough respect from her father to get to go to college?
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Third Brother put urine in Adeline's orange juice
What trick did Third Brother play on Adeline?
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obvious
What is the definition of blatant?
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Adeline broke Niang's rule that none of her stepchildren could go to a friends house and none of their friends could come to their house. Adeline went to Wu Chun-mei's birthday party and Adeline's friends followed her home after she won the election.
What did Adeline do to make her parents think Adeline needed to go to St Joseph's Boarding School?
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Ye Ye
"I predict that in a hundred years from now, the world's many languages will be distilled down to three languages: Chinese, English, and Spanish."
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