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Monday, December 29, 2014

Jin by Bob McCall

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Book: Jin
Author: Bob McCall
ISBN: 978-0-02-202750-6

Chapter 1: Free

1. A barrack
2. They were located at Angel Island.
3. Li Mei
4. Jin
5. The ghostly sounds of foghorns.
6. No, they weren’t allowed.

Chapter 2: Gateway to the Pacific

7. Jin
8. They had to be interview to prove that they were the children of their father.
9. A boycott is when people refuse to buy something form someone.
10. She thought that boycotts sometimes made people change the laws.
11. Li Mei
12. Big Kwan

Chapter 3: The Cook, the Poet, and the Letter

13. They were allowed out for exercise.
14. He gave them a letter from their father.
15. She ran into a man.
16. He was carving a poem on the wall.
17. To give hope to the next man that takes his place on the island.
18. He didn’t have paper and a pen.
19. It said a government official visited him.  He answered all questions truthfully.  That there are boycotts in China and maybe they will be together soon.
20. (A) Mrs. Schwarz
21. She was in charge of the women and children on the island.

Chapter 4: The Test

22. Answers will vary
23. The unions were afraid of workers coming from China.  They were afraid that Chinese people would take their jobs.
24. The government wanted to make sure that Li Mei’s family was real.
25. A “paper daughter” is someone who pretended to be a citizen’s daughter.
26. 3 men questioned Li Mei.
27. They asked her to describe her house, if there were steps up to the front door, and how many windows it had.
28. She said he was an old farmer.
29. She said that she didn’t know.  She said he has been alone all the time she has known him.
30. That there was no well in her village.
31. She said the well is located outside the village.
32. Her job is to carry water from the well to the village.
33. She felt she failed.
34. Germany
35. Mrs. Schwarz

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