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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The American Father.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What mood does the letter from Kingston's friend, the physicist, reflect about his return visit to their common ancestral village?
(a) despair
(b) hopeful
(c) indifference
(d) hostile
2. How does the wife that great grandfather Bak Sook Goong takes back to China affect Kingston's heritage?
(a) The new wife has no affect on Kingston's heritage.
(b) The new wife insists on returning to Hawaii with the rest of the family, removing them from China for good.
(c) The new wife refuses to blend with Bak Sook Goong's other wives, causing the first divorce in her family.
(d) The new wife's children start the line of Hawaiian-Chinese family members.
3. What signed document states that Chinese and Americans could freely travel, trade, and live in either country?
(a) the queue tax
(b) the Nationality Act
(c) the Fourteenth Amendment
(d) the Burlingame Treaty
4. In 1884, who is the first Chinese immigrant denied citizenship based on race?
(a) Chan Young
(b) Yue Ting
(c) Wong Kim Ark
(d) Yick Wo
5. What makes the author afraid to name the village in China where her family lives?
(a) stories of Communist arresting family member of immigrants
(b) Kingston's uncle threatens to kill her nephew if she does.
(c) Tourists of the United States are listed as missing in newspapers
(d) Kingston's mother insists she did not reveal their secret.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the significance of the Supreme Court ruling in the1898 case, The United States v. Wong Kim Ark?
2. Which congressional act in 1882 bans Chinese laborers from entering the U.S. for ten years?
3. Which is the setting for Kingston's biography of great grandfather Bak Goong in "The Great Grandfather of Sandalwood Mountains"?
4. Which anti-Chinese law comes first?
5. What is the result of the 1952 Immigration and Nationality Act?
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