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To the Teacher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v

Unit 1—

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

by Mark Twain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Part I: Chapters I–XX Part II: Chapter XXI–Chapter the Last

Unit 2—

The Awakening

by Kate Chopin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Part I: Sections I–XIX Part II: Sections XX–XXXIX

Unit 3—

Billy Budd

by Herman Melville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Part I: Chapters 1–18 Part II: Chapters 19–30

Unit 4—

Bless Me, Ultima

by Rudolfo Anaya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Part I: Chapters

Uno–Once

Part II: Chapters

Doce–Veintidos

Unit 5—

The Call of the Wild

by Jack London . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Part I: Chapters I–IV Part II: Chapters V–VII

Unit 6—

Catch-22

by Joseph Heller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22


Unit 7—

The Catcher in the Rye

by J.D. Salinger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26


Unit 8—

The Color Purple

by Alice Walker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Part I: Through letter that ends, “the uplift of black people everywhere. Your sister, Nettie”

Part II: Beginning with letter that starts, “Dear Celie, Samuel is a big man.”

Unit 9—

The Crucible

by Arthur Miller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Part I: Acts One and Two Part II: Acts Three and Four

Unit 10—

Ethan Frome

by Edith Wharton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Part I: Prelude–Chapter 4 Part II: Chapter 5–Postscript

Unit 11—

Fahrenheit 451

by Ray Bradbury . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Part I: Part One Part II: Parts Two and Three

Unit 12—

A Gathering of Old Men

by Ernest J. Gaines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Part I: Through end of “Joseph Seaberry” section Part II: Beginning with “Thomas Vincent Sullivan” section

Unit 13—

The Glass Menagerie

by Tennessee Williams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Part I: Scenes One–Five Part II: Scenes Six and Seven

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Unit 14—

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Part I: Chapters I–V Part II: Chapters VI–IX

Unit 15—

Hiroshima

by John Hersey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Part I: Sections I and II Part II: Sections III and IV

Unit 16—

The House on Mango Street

by Sandra Cisneros . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Part I: Through

The First Job

Part II: Beginning with

Papa Who Wakes up Tired in the Dark

Unit 17—

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

by Maya Angelou . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Part I: Prologue–Chapter 19 Part II: Chapters 20–36

Unit 18—

The Joy Luck Club

by Amy Tan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Part I: Sections 1 and 2 Part II: Sections 3 and 4

Unit 19—

My Ántonia

by Willa Cather . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Part I: Book I Part II: Books II–V

Unit 20—

Of Mice and Men

by John Steinbeck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78


Unit 21—

The Old Man and the Sea

by Ernest Hemingway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Part I: Through the line “ ‘Be patient, hand,’ he said. ‘I do this for you.’”

Part II

Unit 22—

Our Town

by Thornton Wilder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Part I: Act I Part II: Acts II and III

Unit 23—

The Pearl

by John Steinbeck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90


Unit 24—

A Raisin in the Sun

by Lorraine Hansberry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94


Unit 25—

The Red Badge of Courage

by Stephen Crane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98


Unit 26—

The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Part I: Chapters I–IX Part II: Chapters X–XXIV

Unit 27—

A Separate Peace

by John Knowles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106


Unit 28—

Their Eyes Were Watching God

by Zora Neale Hurston . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110


Unit 29—

To Kill a Mockingbird

by Harper Lee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114


Unit 30—

Twelve Angry Men

by Reginald Rose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118


Answer Key

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The person who thinks Huck is a ghost when he first sees Huck on Jackson’s Island5

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The town where Jim and Huck plan to go, north up the Ohio River

This character tells Huck, “‘You don’t seem to know anything, somehow—perfect sap-head.’”

The first “con” Huck sees the king do with a crowd in a small town

The “old regular Muddy!”

The Grangerford girl who uses Huck to plan her secret rendezvous

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The two states that can be seen from Jackson’s Island

This character tells Huck, “‘Why there ain’t no end to your airs—they say you’re rich.’”

Emmeline Grangerford was an expert at this.

“Sollermun”

Bilgewater

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The fictional name that represents Twain’s own hometown of Hannibal, Missouri

The event Huck is talking about sadly when he writes, “I don’t want to talk much about the next day.”

This sign in the snow shows Huck that Pap is nearby.

According to Jim, if a person has hairy arms and a hairy chest, it predicts this.

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The name Huck uses when disguised as a girl

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The place that was “like the whole world lit up,” at least to Huck

The character who says to Huck, “‘Oho-o. I think I see. You want to sell all your property to me—not give it.’”

The amount of money Miss Watson would get if she sold Jim

“Crawfished”

This character’s prestige grows when he possesses a “magical” hairball.

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The first sign Huck sees on Jackson’s Island that tells him he’s not alone

The character who asks Huck, “‘Does you reck’n we gwyne to run acrost any mo’ kings on dis trip?’”

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a sequel to this other Twain novel.

“A jug of forty-rod”

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At least three of the “cons” the duke and/or king uses to make money

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The place Jim hides while Huck stays with the Grangerfords

Huck challenges this character with, “‘I bet you can’t spell my name.’”

Two of the three reasons the woman tells Huck she knew he wasn’t a girl

A “Texas” on a steamboat

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Aunt Polly

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This is the fate of the duke and king the last time Huck sees them.

Jim tells Huck this truth about Pap, the same news Jim has been hiding from Huck since the beginning of their voyage.

The reason Huck first goes to the Phelpses’ place

Character who says: “‘I wish there was a moat to this cabin. If we get time, the night of the escape, we’ll dig one.’”

Occupation of the real Harvey Wilks from England

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The reason Mr. Wilks’s body has to be dug up after burial

The duke’s rendition of a Shakespearean soliloquy is really made up of pieces from these two plays from Shakespeare.

The place Huck secretly hides the sack of gold the Wilks girls have given to the king

The reason Huck joyfully says “it was like being born again, I was so glad to find out who I was.”

The name Tom Sawyer assumes while at Aunt Sally’s

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The Royal Nonesuch

In the fraud of the Wilks family, the duke plays this role.

The place Tom Sawyer keeps the bullet taken from his wound

This character is very upset when she says, “‘I’ve a good notion to take and—say, what do you mean by kissing me?’”

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The names of the three Wilks girls

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This event makes Huck comment, “It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.”

Amount of money Tom Sawyer gives to Jim for “being prisoner for us so patient”

The place where Aunt Polly lives

The person Jim is speaking of when he says, “‘I . . . grab her up in my arms, en say, “Oh, de po’ little thing! de Lord God Amighty fogive po’ ole Jim.”’“

The reason the doctor sticks up for Jim at the end of the book

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The excuse Huck tells the doctor about how his “brother” got shot

The reason Tom says, “‘He ain’t no slave; he’s as free as any cretur that walks this earth!’”

At the end of the novel, the place Huck intends to “light out for”

This character tells Huck, “‘if I don’t ever see you again, I sha’n’t ever forget you, and I’ll think of you a many and a many a time, and I’ll pray for you, too!’”

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This character is the first one to tell the Wilks girls that the king and duke are frauds.20

Boggs accuses Colonel Sherburn of this.

The reason the Phelpses think Huck has the “brain fever”

After watching Sherburn face a mob, Huck goes to this place just to sit and watch the “splendidest sight that ever was.”

This man says, “‘The average man’s a coward.’”

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First person who illegally sells Buck from his home

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On the first trip north, Buck is beaten with this.

Buck’s lineage Buck’s home location at the beginning of the book

wrath

The man in the red sweater is associated with this object in Buck’s mind.10

The first day on land at Dyea beach gives Buck this new, confusing experience in nature.

Most of the dogs pulling the sled teams are of this breed.

At this city, Buck begins a sea voyage with Perrault.

adversary

The first dog that is killed because of an attack of “these wolfish creatures” at Dyea beach15

The event that leaves almost every dog on the sled team wounded

The “death fight” between Spitz and Buck started out with this.

The place Buck learns to sleep at night in the Arctic

nocturnal

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The one sled dog who sees in Buck a dangerous rival; he never loses an opportunity to show his teeth to Buck.25

Buck doesn’t like this second job as much as the one he had with Perrault and Francois.

When Dave becomes sick, this sled dog is moved into his place on the team.

Year the book begins

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This character says, “‘An’ now we make good time. No more Spitz, no more trouble, sure.’”

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Beautiful, luminous strands of light that sometimes appear in the night skies of the Northern Hemisphere

For this adversary of Buck’s, the author describes, “Bitter rage was his, but never blind rage.”

The thing that happens “behind the belt of river trees,” and every dog knows it

paradox

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Perrault’s occupation

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After Buck’s victory over Spitz, this is the place Buck feels he has earned.

The one quality in Buck that makes for “greatness” in this game of survival

If Dave was going to die, he wanted to die in this place.

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The two men who buy Buck at Skagway

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General characteristic of the Outside dogs

When they arrive at this town from the mail train, the dogs have used up all their energy.

This is the general advice the veterans of the sled teams give to Hal and Charles.

zeal

Wife to Charles, sister to Hal

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As the team leaves with Hal, Charles, and Mercedes, this is the general feeling among the experienced dogs.

This man’s camp is the place that Hal, Charles, Mercedes, and only five dogs slowly pull into.

The reason it really isn’t smart to have fourteen dogs on one sled team

voracious

He tells family members, “‘They’re lazy, I tell you, and you’ve got to whip them to get anything out of them.’”15

The man in the red sweater proves that this dog’s heart is unbreakable.

The place Hal, Charles, Mercedes, and four dogs die

This man proclaims proudly, “‘They told us we couldn’t make White River, and here we are.’”

malignant

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This man knows it is useless to get “between a man and his folly.”

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The Yeehats’s name for Buck

The first town where Buck’s “reputation is made” because he attacked a man who was attacking John Thornton

After John is saved in the river, John and his friends make camp until this thing occurs.

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Buck attacks this entire group of people.

Thornton and his friends leave this town in favor of something more beneficial.

The bet John makes regarding Buck

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The one person who was an added 120 pounds to the dogs’ load

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The reason Hal beats Buck severely at John Thornton’s camp

The reason John Thornton is alone at the frozen lake when Buck first meets the man

The second time Buck saves John’s life, they are battling this.

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He explains, “‘Me? I was third-string quarterback. . . . My hair is red, my eyes are green, and most people call me Sully.’”

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College that Gil, Cal, and Sully all attend

This person is considered the best halfback in the SE Football Conference and is already nominated for All-American.

The reason Sully is called T.V. sometimes

The event that has drawn “thousands of people from Mississippi” to the area

He says to Sully, “‘God, I hope none of them had anything to do with it.’”10

The first place Gil wants to go after hearing about his brother’s death, before going home

These two men work so well on the football field that the press call them Salt and Pepper.

Lou Dimes feels that Candy is the closest to these two people who raised her.

He wasn’t in any hurry through the day because, he mentions, “‘Too late to go fishing now anyhow.’”

Miss Merle questions this man, “‘What kind of husband will you make if you let her kick?’”15

Nearest town to Marshall Quarters—it is where Beau’s body has been taken.

Gil accuses this character, “‘You never did like Beau. You never liked any of us. Looking at us as if we’re a breed below you.’”

Fix Bouton’s relationship to Gil

Russ tells Gil to go back to Baton Rouge, get some rest, then do this the next day.

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This person tells his father, “‘Those days when you just take the law in your own hands—those days are gone.’”25

Every time the men leave the front yard and go to the back of the house, they are doing this to get ready to defend themselves.

Rooster mentions he “had never seen a happier white man in all my born days,” referring to this person after hearing that Fix Bouton wasn’t going to do anything violent.

This character makes Candy sit in the car while the old men talk inside the house.

When Clatoo tells Candy she can’t come in the house to be part of the discussion about Mathu, this person just grins at Candy.

Mapes replies to this person, “‘And you want to keep them slaves the rest of their lives.’”

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This person tells the group of old men, “‘Thirty years ago Fix woulda been here. . . . But something happened the last ten, fifteen years. Salt and Pepper got together.’”

The men are all scared that this man is more likely to talk to the law than anyone else in their gathering.

When this man finally confesses to killing Beau, everyone is dumbfounded that he would actually do such a thing.

Mathu says that this event made that day the proudest day of his whole life.

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This person tells Luke Will, “‘You might have been a friend of Beau’s. But you not a member of this family, and you don’t speak.’”

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Tee Jack owns this kind of place, and he isn’t ready to take any stranger’s side in an argument.

This person knew Candy’s grandfather and raised her father.

The “All-American and the butcher”

This person brought sandwiches for everyone.

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This American-born daughter is a childhood chess prodigy.

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This is the day of the second new moon after the winter solstice—the time when everyone celebrates a birthday.

At June’s first Joy Luck Club meeting, the three Aunties tell her this startling news.

Throughout the novel, this bird is symbolic of transformation.

When Jing-Mei (June) Woo begs this person to buy her a radio, the answer is, “‘Why do you think you are missing something you never had?’”

This American-born daughter looks something like her English-Irish father, but her eyes are just like her mother’s.10

This Chinese game requires four players and uses 136 or 144 pieces called tiles.

Waverly is named for this.

The color of mourning and death in China

As a young girl, she tells her mother, “‘I wish you wouldn’t do that, telling everybody I’m your daughter . . . it’s just so embarrassing.’”

When Rose wants to give up on her marriage, this woman tells her to keep trying, adding, “‘This is not hope. Not reason. This is your fate.’”

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In the 1940s, China’s greatest enemy was this country, which is geographically very close to parts of China.

Suyuan Woo always wanted her daughter, June, to be this kind of musical prodigy, but it never quite happened.

The meaning of rain on the day of a wedding celebration in China

This man says to Rose, “‘You can’t have it both ways, none of the responsibility, none of the blame.’”

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This character says of the Chinese words her mother uses, “I can never remember things I didn’t understand in the first place.”

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This American West Coast city has the largest and most well-known Chinatown within its borders.

The reason Rose and Ted are “half- and-half.”

On the fifteenth day of the eighth moon, this symbolic character appears and grants secret wishes to those who can pay.

As children, this girl says to Jing-Mei (June): “‘You aren’t a genius like me.’”

Even though this character “scared” An-Mei when she was a child growing up in China, An-Mei knows that this woman thought she and her brother “were very precious” to her.

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This color is used to dye eggs and to celebrate good fortune.

For Jing-Mei’s thirtieth birthday, her mother offers to give her this.

A red candle that burns continuously through the wedding night has this particular meaning for the bride and groom.

June’s mother says about this woman: “‘[She] is not hard of hearing. She is hard of listening.’”

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This Auntie is sent to live at her future husband’s house at the age of twelve, after heavy floods destroyed her own family’s house.

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This marriage practice was once common in China, if the male was rich enough.

After Rose’s mother loses her faith, she uses the Bible to do this.

When this pours all over little An-Mei, she says it symbolizes “everyone’s anger pouring all over me.”

This mother tells her daughter, “‘Of course you can be prodigy, too. You can be best anything. What does Auntie Lindo know?’”

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One of Rose’s problems is that she talks to everyone about her divorce from Ted except this person.5

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This gemstone, prized by the Chinese as the most precious of all stones, ranges in color from dark green to almost white.

Lena St. Clair’s father died of this.

According to Waverly, it is at this place that Rich fails miserably in her parents’ eyes.

Two different ways in which Lena and Harold (the architect) are connected

This female tells June that her firm won’t pay June for her work because it isn’t sophisticated enough.10

This young prince was born in 563 B.C.E., and his followers founded the major world religion that seeks enlightenment.

This gift from Rich seems very extravagant, but Waverly shows it proudly to her mother.

The place Waverly and Rich intend to go on their honeymoon

Marvin Chen and Waverly Jong

This character imagines that she will have to say, “Sisters, I am sorry, I have come alone.”15

A mirrored armoire at the end of the bed will cause this to happen, according to one mother.

Rose’s sisters all have nicknames growing up; Rose is called Scaredy Eyes because of this.

When Ted comes over to get the signed divorce papers, Rose shows him this place in particular.

American-born Jing-Mei to Chinese-born Chwun Yu and Chwun Hwa

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She made her American husband court her for four years before she married him.25

The reason June’s mother will not eat her crab at the last Chinese New Year’s dinner she prepares

According to Lindo, these two things do not mix in a Chinese- American child.

An-Mei reads that in China recently the peasants finally drove away these birds.

Little An-Mei leaves her uncle’s house in China and follows this person.

She says about her daughter, “‘But now she wants to be Chinese, it is so fashionable. And I know it is too late.’”

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Popo told little An-Mei that this is a very unlucky number, because “‘if you say it in an angry way, it always comes out wrong.’”

Working in the cookie factory, Lindo is very surprised by these.

In the Chinese way of thinking, this room should always be the guest bedroom in a person’s house.

This man called Ying-Ying “Tiger Lady.”

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Dealing with her divorce, Rose is feeling hulihudu, and everything seems to be heimongmong—what these words mean in Chinese.

An-Mei’s mother plans her own death so that her spirit will return in three days on this important day.

This woman’s wish is finally fulfilled at an airport in China.

Shoshana and Lindo Jong

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