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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. What is Tang Ao doing when he meets the Queen?
(a) having a meal with the queen's court
(b) serving a meal to the Queen's court
(c) putting jade studs into his ears
(d) playing an instrument

2. To what does the narrator in "The Ghostmate" compare the woman's hair?
(a) long black tail alive
(b) follows her retreating back
(c) lumps of peacocks
(d) a light-colored dress

3. Which of the following is an example of a simile used in "The Ghostmate"?
(a) The bowls of soup are bottomless.
(b) He gorges; he indulges his appetite.
(c) Steam rises as if a mirage of food floated on the table.
(d) The orange of the firelight suffuses the prorcelain.

4. Why would the woman in "The Ghostmate" ask the young man to make her shoes?
(a) The woman wants her visitor to leave right away.
(b) The woman is poor and needs a pair of shoes.
(c) The woman is trying to distract the young man from the storm.
(d) The woman keeps her visitors with her by making them make things for her.

5. What is the procedure that the women are using on Tang's feet called?
(a) streaming
(b) bandaging
(c) swaddling
(d) footbinding

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What mood does the letter from Kingston's friend, the physicist, reflect about his return visit to their common ancestral village?

3. Why is there a communal dining room at the Chinese village where Kingston's ancestors lived?

4. Which is the setting for Kingston's biography of great grandfather Bak Goong in "The Great Grandfather of Sandalwood Mountains"?

5. Which of the following from "The Ghostmate" shows that the young man is feeling guilty about not returning to his family?

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