Chinese Cinderella Chapter 15

Describe Aunt Reine.

-nice -doesn't understand Adeline's family situation. -she is the opposite of Niang

What does Adeline ask Aunt Baba when she writes her a letter?

Adeline asks for Aunt Baba to remember her and why she isn't writing/sending her letters. She also wanted a photograph and asked if the communists were going to take her to jail.

Describe Adeline's Christmas.

Adeline was lonely and had to be with the nuns, but they were busy and she had to eat dinner by herself.

What happened in the middle of December at her school?

Adeline was the only student left in school.

What class was Adeline so upset about when she was placed at her new school?

Adeline was upset about all of her classes because she was placed into kindergarten classes based on her english ability.

What does Aunt Reine not realize about Adeline's relationship with Father and Niang?

Aunt Reine did not know Niang and Father hated Adeline.

Who was there to pick up Adeline and take her to Hong Kong?

Aunt Reine(Niangs sister)

What language did she have to speak there?

English and France

How did Adeline know that she meant so little to her father?

Father forgot her chinese name and birthday.

What was unknown about Adeline?

Her birthday

Where did Adeline ask to go instead of Hong Kong? Why did she ask this?

She asked to go to Shanghai to be with Aunt Baba.

Why did Father and Niang send Adeline to Tianjin?

She was to be separated from Aunt Baba

Where was Adeline brought to stay after she landed in Tianjin?

St. Joseph's Boarding school

What did Niang instruct the nuns to do?

Take all the letters(incoming and outgoing).

Who were coming to Tianjin?

The communists were coming

Why was Adeline's plane empty? What did she find out at St. Joseph's?

The plane was empty because the communists were coming and people were leaving Tianjin.

What was Adeline's one wish?

To receive a letter from anyone