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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 woman in "The Ghostmate" get her visitors to stay longer than they intend to?
(a) She brings the young man the very fruits, the very poem, the very game he likes best.
(b) She convinces the young man that she is better for him than his wife.
(c) She locks the young man in the dungeon.
(d) She tells the young man the long story of her tragic life.

2. What do the women do to help stir the cool female winds inside Tang's body?
(a) giveTang tea with white chrysanthemums
(b) make Tang sit in the rain and wind
(c) unwrap the bindings from Tang's feet
(d) make Tang wash the bandages used to bind his feet

3. What is the meaning of the word hastening in the opening lines of "On Fathers"?
(a) speeding up the pace of walking
(b) running quickly by
(c) slowing down the pace of walking
(d) stopping to tie shoe laces

4. What metaphor does Tang use to compare his bandages hanging to dry?
(a) like underwear
(b) like a moth's wings
(c) gathered his toes over and under another
(d) streamers that drooped and draped wall to wall

5. What reason is given for torturing Tang Ao?
(a) to prepare Tang to meet the queen
(b) to teach him a lesson about respecting women
(c) to make him look like a woman
(d) to punish him for coming to the Land of Women

Short Answer Questions

1. Who are the children referring to when they call out, "BaBa!"?

2. What is the last thing the women do to prepare Tang to meet the queen?

3. Which best describes the setting of "On Fathers"?

4. Who is the author speaking or writing to in the beginning of "The Father from China"?

5. How does Father acknowledge that he recognizes the children?

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