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

2. 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) Yick Wo v. Hopkins
(c) The United States v. Mrs. Cue Lim
(d) Chae Chan Ping v. The United States

3. 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) the revised Burlingame Treaty
(d) Chinese Exclusion Act

4. 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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens that begins Father's most dismal time in "The American Father"?

2. What kind of business does Father buy?

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

4. What two actions result from the Scott Act of 1888?

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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