An Ocean Apart, a World Away Quiz pages 1-12
An Ocean Apart, a World Away Quiz pages 12-20
1. Why does Yanyan want to go to Shanghai? (p1)
1. How is Yanyan traveling to Shanghai? (p12)
2. What is the name of Yanyan’s best friend? (p2)
2. Name two different cultures that control parts of
Shanghai. (p15)
3. What is the name of Eldest Brother’s friend (whom
is going to Shanghai)? (p2)
4. Yanyan’s mother has this thing, but Yanyan does
not. What is it? (Hint: it is an old Chinese
tradition.) (p4)
3. The Manchus set up WHAT dynasty? What is the
name of the dynasty? (p15)
4. Eldest Brother and Baoshu make fun of the white
man sitting with them. What do they say about
him? (p17)
5. What year is this story set in? (p5)
5. How does the white man (the Westerner) surprise
the group of three Chinese people? (p18)
6. What is the name of Yanyan’s English teacher?
(p8)
6. What is this Westerner’s name? (p20)
7. What does Yanyan want to become when she gets
older? (p8)
8. Does Father support/encourage Yanyan to follow
her dream? Yes or no? (p11)
7. Where does he live? (p20)
8. What is his job? (p20)
An Ocean Apart, a World Away Quiz pages 21-33
An Ocean Apart, a World Away Quiz pages 33-38
1. What will be Ailin’s job in America? (p22)
1. Does Yanyan stay in a room all by herself? (p33)
2. Does Yanyan want to join in the fight that occurs?
(p26)
3. The leader of the gang pulls out what kind of
weapon? (p28)
4. Police come and they suspect the Chinese trio of
causing the trouble. Who saves the group from the
police? (p30)
5. What are two of the different sectors of Shanghai?
(p32)
2. Liang Baoshu is half-Chinese and half-WHAT?
(p36)
3. The Manchus conquered China in what century?
(p36)
4. What does Eldest Brother agree to teach Yanyan?
(p37)
An Ocean Apart, a World Away Quiz pages 39-55
An Ocean Apart, a World Away Quiz pages 70-80
1. Does Yanyan’s mother approve or disapprove of
Yanyan taking part in the men’s discussions? (41)
1. Has Lumei read the note that Baoshu sent to
Yanyan? (70)
2. What does Baoshu want to become when he gets
older? (43)
2. What does Baoshu want with Yanyan? (73)
3. Is Yanyan more focused on marrying Baoshu or
finishing school to become a doctor? (45)
4. In America, what is Ailin learning to do? (46)
5. Ailin is not coming back to China with the Warner
family. Instead she is staying in America and
doing what? (48)
3. Would Yanyan want to attend a university in
America or in England? (75)
4. What is the name of the man Ailin is marrying?
(78)
5. Does Yanyan decide to go with Baoshu? (80)
6. Why does Yanyan decide this? (Why didn’t she
choose the other option?) (79)
6. What’s the name of the servant who shuts the gate
to the family compound? (54)
7. What does Baoshu say to Yanyan’s answer? (80)
7. What’s the name of the family’s maid? (55)
8. What’s happened to Baoshu at the end of the
chapter? (55)
An Ocean Apart, a World Away Quiz pages 80-86
1. What school does Yanyan say she wants to go to?
(80)
An Ocean Apart, a World Away Quiz pages 56-69
1. What does Baoshu want Yanyan to do? (57)
2. Do the police know the identity to the person they
were chasing? (61)
3. Why did Baoshu ask for help from Yanyan and not
anyone else in the family? (67)
4. Will Father let Baoshu stay at his house? (67)
5. What is the message that Lumei brings to Yanyan?
(69)
2. The founder of this college believes in a good
education for WHAT/WHO? (81)
3. Yanyan’s new clothes are made out of what? (83)
4. By what name do the Pettigrews call Yanyan?
(What name do the Pettigrews call Yanyan?) (84)
5. As Yanyan is waving goodbye to her parents, she
thinks of Baoshu. Does Yanyan think she’ll see
Baoshu again? (86)
An Ocean Apart, a World Away Quiz pages 87-108
1. What group of people does Yanyan mistake for
Chinese? (Hint: they are red-skinned) (87)
2. Yanyan will stay at Cornell for how long? (91)
An Ocean Apart, a World Away Quiz pages 109-112
1. Who does Mr. Pettigrew take Yanyan to see?
(109)
3. Who owns the boarding house where Yanyan is
staying? (93)
2. This person and Mr. Pettigrew think it is best that
Yanyan takes what class at college? (110)
4. Who is the librarian friend that Yanyan meets?
(94)
5. Mrs. Harte has the stereotype that all Chinese
people know who to do what? (95)
3. Does Yanyan decide to take this class? (112)
4. The answer to number one doesn’t want Yanyan to
take which course/class at college? (111)
5. Does Yanyan take this class? (112)
6. What is the name of the laundry place? (It’s also
known as the Laundromat) (102)
7. Yanyan wanders around and finds a Chinese
restaurant. What is the name of this restaurant?
(104)
An Ocean Apart, a World Away Quiz pages 112-127
1. Is the home economics class hard for Yanyan?
(114)
8. Is the food served at this restaurant REAL Chinese
food? (105)
2. One of Yanyan’s teachers has the stereotype that
all Chinese people are good at doing what? (116)
9. What does the cook promise to do for Yanyan if
she ever comes back to the restaurant? (106)
10. At the end of the chapter, who does Yanyan write a
letter to? (107)
3. What are the names of the two girls in Yanyan’s
math class? (117)
4. What is the racial insult that a man at the
Laundromat calls Yanyan? (122)
5. What are the names of the two Chinese boys and
one Chinese girl that Yanyan meets at a football
game? (125)
An Ocean Apart, a World Away Quiz pages 127-159
1.
What is an American expression that Yanyan struggles to understand? (p129)
2.
Who is the new Chinese girl (we’ve already met Celia) that Yanyan meets? (p131)
3.
Sibyl can see that which boy is interested in Yanyan? (p132)
4.
Is Yanyan interested in this boy? (p132)
5.
The Chinese group (the two boys and two girls) are all _____________ Scholarship students. (p135)
6.
What school subject is LH interested in? (p138)
7.
Which member of the Chinese group says that he/she wants to be a writer? (p141)
8.
How does Yanyan mess up the expression “I need to pull myself together”? (How does Yanyan say this?) (p144)
9.
Who thinks Yanyan is a maid just because she is Chinese? (p144)
10. Does Yanyan ever regret taking the physics course? (p147)
11. Who saves LH from getting beaten up by a bunch of football players? (p150)
12. Why were the football players beating on LH? (p152)
13. Does Yanyan end up enjoying her home economics class? (p154)
14. What does Yanyan decide to do to repay the Chinese group for having her over for dinner? (p154)
15. What goes wrong with her plan? (p156)
An Ocean Apart, a World Away Quiz pages 160-165
An Ocean Apart, a World Away Quiz pages 178-193
(end)
1. What holiday is coming up? (p160)
1. Does Yanyan pass all her exams? (p182)
2. Name the two girls who are going home to
Cleveland and Buffalo. (p161)
3. What is the Chinese group doing for the holiday?
(p162)
4. What does Yanyan decide to do during the
holiday? (p163)
5. Do the Pettigrews allow Yanyan to go through
with her plans? (p164)
An Ocean Apart, a World Away Quiz pages 165-177
1. Is Tao Ailin even a little sorry that she decided to
come to America? (p167)
2. What is the name of Ailin’s husband and what is
the name of his restaurant? (p167-168)
3. What is Yanyan’s idea for food at Ailin’s
restaurant? (Hint: she invents something we have
in America at many restaurants.) (p170)
4. Does Yanyan plan to return to China after she
becomes a doctor? (p173)
5. Why didn’t Yanyan agree to go with Baoshu?
(p176-177)
2. What is the surprise that the Pettigrews have for
Yanyan? (p183-184)
3. What is Baoshu’s job now? (p184)
4. What does Baoshu want with Yanyan? (p189)
5. Why does LH say that Baoshu can’t kill him?
(p191)