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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. What does Kingston notice about the Wild Man as shown in the photos of his capture appearing in the newspaper?
(a) The Wild Man's hair and beard were extremely long, because he was unable to groom himself in the swamp.
(b) The Wild Man was crying as his captors led him out of the swamp.
(c) The Wild Man was neat and clean and did not act wild or fight his captors.
(d) The men in cowboy hats that escorted him out of the swamp appeared to have given quite a fight against the Wild Man.

2. What does Ah Goong, BaBa's father, do with BaBa that horrifies the family?
(a) Ah Goong trades BaBa for a neighbor's girl baby.
(b) Ah Goong sang girl songs to BaBa.
(c) Ah Goong climbed high up to a second floor window to watch BaBa be born.
(d) Ah Goong jumped on BaBa's stomach for hours.

3. What signed document states that Chinese and Americans could freely travel, trade, and live in either country?
(a) the Burlingame Treaty
(b) the Fourteenth Amendment
(c) the Nationality Act
(d) the queue tax

4. In addition to self-defense, what is the most influential element in the rule of law in Alaska in 1885?
(a) personal diaries of government officials
(b) China Men meetings
(c) newspapers and flyers
(d) miner's meetings

5. What is it that Maui instructs all the living creatures on Earth to do in order to accomplish his goal?
(a) walk on water
(b) read the clouds
(c) stay silent
(d) sing in tune

Short Answer Questions

1. Which best describes the author when she sends money to her cousin in China?

2. What does the blind fortune teller predict will happen to Kingston's San Francisco Aunt over her lifetime?

3. What were the Chinese wives most likely afraid of when their husbands left for Gold Mountain?

4. What details do we learn about the Wild Man when he talks to the translator in his jail cell?

5. What kind of business does Father buy?

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