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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Alaska China Men.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do people in Alaska do to track events in their lives and their community?
(a) post bulletins around towns
(b) write in diaries
(c) produce a weekly newspaper
(d) hire a town crier

2. Why do the children reach into the man's pockets?
(a) The children think he has something that belongs to them.
(b) The children are looking for his photo identification.
(c) The children want to steal his money.
(d) The children expect to find surprises for them in his pockets.

3. Tu cannot deliver his messages and take care of his urgent things after he exits the tunnel because _____________________________.
(a) When he ermerges from the tunnel, he is lost.
(b) No one will listen to Tu's messages or help him with urgent matters.
(c) The tunnel is a passage to his rebirth as an infant.
(d) Explosions inside the tunnel made Tu deaf and mute.

4. To what does this simile refer: "Sap ran from its cuts like crying blind eyes"?
(a) a blind child that cried all the time
(b) a huge redwood tree that Ah Goong helped cut down
(c) bamboo that had to be cut before the rail could be laid
(d) cuts on Ah Goong's arms after working in the forest

5. In "The Ghostmate," what does the young man see along the path that comforts him a little?
(a) red paper
(b) peacocks
(c) charging dogs
(d) rabbits

Short Answer Questions

1. How many fortunes does Tu Tzu-chun spend?

2. After Captain Carroll rescues the China Men from being adrift in the sea, where do the China Men ask the Captain to take them?

3. When does the story of Tu-Tzu-chin take place?

4. Which best describes the genre of these two chapters: "The Ghostmate" and "The Father From America"?

5. What does the monk say Tu Tzu-chun has to do to repay him the third time?

(see the answer key)

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