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

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

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

4. 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

5. In 1884, who is the first Chinese immigrant denied citizenship based on race?
(a) Yick Wo
(b) Yue Ting
(c) Wong Kim Ark
(d) Chan Young

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the "Jesus demons" trying to do when they visit the work camp where Bak Goong lives?

2. What is the result of the 1952 Immigration and Nationality Act?

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

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

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

(see the answer key)

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