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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The American Father.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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's children start the line of Hawaiian-Chinese family members.
(c) The new wife insists on returning to Hawaii with the rest of the family, removing them from China for good.
(d) The new wife refuses to blend with Bak Sook Goong's other wives, causing the first divorce in her family.

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

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

4. What is the result of the 1952 Immigration and Nationality Act?
(a) It restricted immigration into the United States.
(b) It distributed 18,000 visas that had not been used.
(c) It allowed merchant wives to enter the country.
(d) It allowed thousands of Hong Kong parolees to enter the U.S.

5. 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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Chan Moong Gut in "The Great Grandfather of the Sandalwood Mountains"?

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

3. In what year did the U.S. immigration laws discard the Western Hemisphere quota and move to a worldwide quota?

4. What makes the author afraid to name the village in China where her family lives?

5. What rule do the "white demons" enforce that is problematic for great grandfather Bak Goong while he is working in the sugar cane fields?

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