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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Great Grandfather of the Sandalwood Mountains.

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. What does Ah Po show BaBa's brothers to explain that he is different from them?
(a) BaBa's hair was a different color than theirs.
(b) BaBa was the largest boy born so far in the family.
(c) BaBa's skinny, frail body had hands made for holding pens.
(d) BaBa's head was shaped differently than theirs.

3. What do the two old women do to Tang Ao with the needles?
(a) pierce Tang's tongue
(b) sew Tang's lips shut
(c) pierce Tang's ears
(d) pin Tang's ears to his head

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

5. What does Ah Goong, BaBa's father, do with BaBa that horrifies the family?
(a) Ah Goong climbed high up to a second floor window to watch BaBa be born.
(b) Ah Goong sang girl songs to BaBa.
(c) Ah Goong trades BaBa for a neighbor's girl baby.
(d) Ah Goong jumped on BaBa's stomach for hours.

Short Answer Questions

1. How might Kingston's father's life have been different had he passed the Imperial Examinations with honors?

2. What is the simile "like a knot of ginger root" referring to?

3. Why would the woman in "The Ghostmate" ask the young man to make her shoes?

4. What were the Chinese wives most likely afraid of when their husbands left for Gold Mountain?

5. In "The Ghostmate," what does the young man see along the path that comforts him a little?

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