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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. In Honolulu, what does Kingston's friend, the dancer, report about Kingston's ancestral village?
(a) the people in the village are ignorant and lazy
(b) family members had been forced out to build apartments
(c) the people are housed and fed
(d) the people greeted her with a parade

4. What personal theory does Kingston recall testing when she was child?
(a) Kingston thought boys liked to be kicked.
(b) Kingston believes that her father worked secretly for the Communist Party.
(c) Kingston believes that boys do not feel pain.
(d) Kingston believes that she can tell lies and never get caught.

5. What mood does the letter from Kingston's friend, the physicist, reflect about his return visit to their common ancestral village?
(a) hostile
(b) despair
(c) hopeful
(d) indifference

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which anti-Chinese law comes first?

3. Which tax is enforced on Chinese immigrants living in California in order to pay for the extra policing their presence requires?

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

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

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