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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 happens that begins Father's most dismal time in "The American Father"?
(a) MaMa shames him into taking a low-wage laborer job.
(b) The children get out of control, and Father beats his daughter with a hangar.
(c) MaMa has an accident at the cannery and dies.
(d) The Gambling house is raided and closed permanently.

2. What two actions result from the Scott Act of 1888?
(a) identifying free whites as eligible to apply for U.S. citizenship and giving African Aliens eligibility to apply for U.S. citizenshi
(b) defining
(c) suspending the Burlingame Treaty for 20 years and making Chinese men cut off their ponytails
(d) voiding Certificates of Return and requiring Certificate of Residence be shown on demand

3. Which congressional act in 1882 bans Chinese laborers from entering the U.S. for ten years?
(a) the revoking of Certificate of Residence
(b) the revised Burlingame Treaty
(c) Chinese Exclusion Act
(d) Nationality Act

4. Which Supreme Court case overturns San Francisco safety ordinances, thereby admitting that California laws are designed to harass Chinese immigrants?
(a) Yue Ting v. The United States
(b) The United States v. Mrs. Cue Lim
(c) Yick Wo v. Hopkins
(d) Chae Chan Ping v. The United States

5. How does great grandfather Bak Goong break the rules of silence while working in Sandalwood Mountain?
(a) Bak Goong sends written notes to other workers.
(b) Bak Goong deliberately sings in front of the masters.
(c) Bak Goong coughs out Chinese words the masters cannot understand.
(d) Bak Goong talks quietly to himself.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of business does Father buy?

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

3. What signed document states that Chinese and Americans could freely travel, trade, and live in either country?

4. In 1884, who is the first Chinese immigrant denied citizenship based on race?

5. How does the wife that great grandfather Bak Sook Goong takes back to China affect Kingston's heritage?

(see the answer key)

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