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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) playing an instrument
(b) having a meal with the queen's court
(c) putting jade studs into his ears
(d) serving a meal to the Queen's court

2. Who is the author speaking or writing to in the beginning of "The Father from China"?
(a) her father
(b) her readers
(c) her mother
(d) her siblings

3. How might Kingston's father's life have been different had he passed the Imperial Examinations with honors?
(a) Kingston's father may not have come to Gold Mountain.
(b) Kingston's father may have traveled the world in luxury.
(c) Kingston's father may have married an American woman.
(d) Kingston's father may not have had to work a single day in his life.

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

5. Who were the Gold Mountain Sojourners?
(a) the white demons that control the immigrant Chinese men
(b) the men who went to America and then returned to China
(c) the teachers who graded papers every night for the Chinese children
(d) the men who mined the gold in America

Short Answer Questions

1. What does a Chinese bride do for three nights before she marries?

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

3. What is the Chinaman's hat in "The Great Grandfather of the Sandalwood Mountains"?

4. What is the procedure that the women are using on Tang's feet called?

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

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