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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Li Sao: An Elegy.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does the young man enter the house of the young widow?
(a) He is lonely and seeks companionship.
(b) He seeks shelter from a storm along the mountain path.
(c) He is selling wares door-to-door
(d) He is being chased by dogs.

2. What reason is given for torturing Tang Ao?
(a) to prepare Tang to meet the queen
(b) to punish him for coming to the Land of Women
(c) to make him look like a woman
(d) to teach him a lesson about respecting women

3. Which anti-Chinese law comes first?
(a) The revised Burlingame Treaty
(b) Chinese Exclusion Act
(c) Act to Amend an Act
(d) Scott Act

4. The author of "The Li Sao" is
(a) Ch'u Yuan, China's earliest known poet
(b) The Goddess of the Hsiang River
(c) Kingston, when she was a teenager
(d) Uncle Kau Goong

5. What is an immortal?
(a) A magician who can stop time.
(b) A person who hurts others without regret.
(c) A human who lives forever, according to legend
(d) A character in tales who dies at the end of the story.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the consequence of Tu Tzu-chun failing the monk's test?

2. What does Kingston notice about the Wild Man as shown in the photos of his capture appearing in the newspaper?

3. What makes the author afraid to name the village in China where her family lives?

4. What mood does the letter from Kingston's friend, the physicist, reflect about his return visit to their common ancestral village?

5. What does Lo Sun Bun's father tell him before Lo heads out to sea?

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