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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Sing Kay Ng get his name?
(a) Lo Bun Sun names him Sing Kay Ng because it means fleeing man.
(b) Sing Kay Ng makes up his own name after he learns Chinese from Lo Bun Sun.
(c) Sing Kay Ng gets his Chinese name from his Chinese mother.
(d) Lo Bun Sun names him Sing Kay Ng because the man has a limp.

2. What two goals does Father finally reach by the end of "The American Father"?
(a) His clothes fit again and mother is finally happy.
(b) He owns his own house and his own business.
(c) He has the biggest garden in Stockton and he owns his own business.
(d) His children go to private school and he owns his own house.

3. How does Sao rid himself of his mother's ghost?
(a) Sao locks her in the dark shed at the grandfathers' old house.
(b) Sao takes a cruise boat back to China and performs the traditional funeral rituals at her graveside.
(c) Sao repeatedly demands that his Mother return home to China, and her ghost disappears.
(d) Sao doesn't ever rid himself of the criticizing ghost and he goes mad, becoming known as Mad Sao.

4. Which of the following is not something Sao does at his mother's grave?
(a) lights incense set in pails of sand
(b) pours wine into the earth
(c) lights on fire paper replicas of money
(d) heaps food and presents on her grave

5. How does the game officer that first spots the Wild Man in the Green Swamp know that what he sees is not a bear?
(a) The officer calls out to the Wild Man who responds in a language the officer cannot understand.
(b) The Wild Man drags a burlap bag behind him.
(c) The Wild Man stands up and confronts the officer.
(d) The officer sees a figure hunched over a fire.

6. What effects do the comic books have on Kingston and her Chinese American family?
(a) Comic books distract the children from the horrors of war by showing Chop Chop.
(b) The stories that were unfit for children must have been worse than guts hanging out.
(c) Comic books gave Chinese Americans true and accurate information about the Vietnam War.
(d) Comic books reinforce the stereotype of the Chinese American or Oriental.

7. What does the Hundred-Year-Old man do to rest during his trips to town early in his time in Hawaii?
(a) smokes opium
(b) spends money on women
(c) smokes cigars
(d) gambles

8. What animal does Lo Bun Sun make his pet and what does he teach it to do?
(a) Lo makes a parrot his pet and he teaches it how to speak so that Lo can hear a human voice.
(b) Lo makes the dog that he rescued from the ship his pet and he teaches it to retrieve the birds Lo shoots.
(c) Lo makes a goat his pet and he teaches the goat to attack its predators.
(d) Lo makes the cat from the ship his pet and he teaches it to come when called.

9. For what does the doctor at the jail treat the Wild Man?
(a) malaria and diarrhea
(b) mosquito bites and stomach ache
(c) dehydration and cuts and bruises
(d) alligator bites and burns from camp fires

10. What are the contents of the Wild Man's bag which is made from a pair of pants?
(a) clean clothes and cooking utensils
(b) a gun, ammunition, and pictures of his family in Taiwan
(c) a pot, a sharp piece of tin, and a hand-made club
(d) ead snakes, turtles, armadillos, and alligators

11. What food product is Uncle Bun obsessed with when the reader first meets him?
(a) wheat germ
(b) milk
(c) coconuts
(d) eggs

12. What does Uncle Bun accuse Father of doing?
(a) stealing his money
(b) working too hard
(c) poisoning his food
(d) wasting money

13. 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) miner's meetings
(c) China Men meetings
(d) newspapers and flyers

14. How many China Men make up the Chinese population in Alaska?
(a) 100
(b) 150
(c) 1,000
(d) 700

15. What word best describes the meaning of Ch'u Yuan's name?
(a) peace
(b) righteous
(c) next king
(d) dirty crowd

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Say Goong call a "sky chicken"?

2. How old is Lo Bun Sun when he returns to China and gets married?

3. Who travels to Alaska during the Driving Out to help end the violence?

4. What does the Hundred-Year-Old Man say he carried with him from China to Hawai'i?

5. To what city does the Filipino king send the mandarins to begin their search for the golden needle?

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