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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Father from China.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Father acknowledge that he recognizes the children?
(a) He salutes them with one finger touching his hat.
(b) He waves his hands and smiles broadly.
(c) He picks up the pace of his walk to a jog.
(d) He turned around and walked the other direction.

2. Which best describes the setting of "On Fathers"?
(a) a farm in rural area
(b) downtown
(c) the author's yard
(d) a street in Stockton, CA

3. What purpose does the mother character serve by entering the story at this point?
(a) She moves the plot along and explains how the children could make such a mistake.
(b) She introduces a conflict that the children have to solve.
(c) She provides an adult female presence to balance the male presence of the stranger.
(d) She becomes the focus of the children so that they stop focusing on the stranger.

4. Who were the Gold Mountain Sojourners?
(a) the teachers who graded papers every night for the Chinese children
(b) the men who went to America and then returned to China
(c) the white demons that control the immigrant Chinese men
(d) the men who mined the gold in America

5. Which is an example from the text of sensory details?
(a) watched the man walk away
(b) mother came out of the house
(c) gold coins that were really chocolate
(d) noses against his coat to sniff his tobacco smell

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author speaking or writing to in the beginning of "The Father from China"?

2. What metaphor does Tang use to compare his bandages hanging to dry?

3. Who is the narrator in this chapter?

4. Who are the children referring to when they call out, "BaBa!"?

5. Why do the children reach into the man's pockets?

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