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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 makes the author afraid to name the village in China where her family lives?
(a) Tourists of the United States are listed as missing in newspapers
(b) Kingston's mother insists she did not reveal their secret.
(c) stories of Communist arresting family member of immigrants
(d) Kingston's uncle threatens to kill her nephew if she does.

2. What is the Chinaman's hat in "The Great Grandfather of the Sandalwood Mountains"?
(a) the place in town where Chinese workers gamble
(b) a hat to protect the Chinese workers
(c) an island
(d) the top of Sandalwood Mountain

3. From whom do MaMa and Father have to keep their savings a secret?
(a) MaMa's sister living in San Francisco
(b) the owner of the Gambling House
(c) their neighbors in Stockton
(d) their six children

4. How does the wife that great grandfather Bak Sook Goong takes back to China affect Kingston's heritage?
(a) The new wife refuses to blend with Bak Sook Goong's other wives, causing the first divorce in her family.
(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 has no affect on Kingston's heritage.
(d) The new wife's children start the line of Hawaiian-Chinese family members.

5. Which is the setting for Kingston's biography of great grandfather Bak Goong in "The Great Grandfather of Sandalwood Mountains"?
(a) Hawaii
(b) California
(c) Cuba
(d) Taiwan

Short Answer Questions

1. In Honolulu, what does Kingston's friend, the dancer, report about Kingston's ancestral village?

2. What kind of business does Father buy?

3. What mood does the letter from Kingston's friend, the physicist, reflect about his return visit to their common ancestral village?

4. What did the Displaced Persons Act passed in 1948 offer Chinese immigrants?

5. How does great grandfather Bak Goong break the rules of silence while working in Sandalwood Mountain?

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