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    Reading Comprehension - “Why children as young as three are sent to boarding school in China”

    Exercise your reading comprehension muscles! This quiz is intended to determine students' comprehension of the article “Why children as young as three are sent to boarding school in China” (found at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24624427).

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    In traditional Chinese culture, family ties are:

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    Kelly Jang's father, Jamie, cites what benefit of sending his daughter to boarding kindergarten:

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    Identify one reason that boarding kindergartens were first established:

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    In the 1990s, sending a child to a boarding kindergarten was a fashionable status symbol. True or False?

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    Psychologist Han Mei Ling criticizes sending children to boarding kindergartens because:

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    Han believes that some parents send their children to boarding kindergartens because in traditional Chinese culture family pride largely depends on a child's academic success or failure. True or False?

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    Fashion model Wang Danwei had a positive experience when she attended a boarding kindergarten. True or False?

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    What reason(s) did Mo Li state for having a positive experience at a boarding kindergarten?