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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 indicates to the young man in "The Ghostmate" that the woman is "old style"?
(a) he does not like the clothing she left him
(b) the food is just the right temperature
(c) she serves him a meal
(d) long combs and traditional eye make-up

2. What is the simile "like a knot of ginger root" referring to?
(a) Tang's arthritic hands
(b) Tang's broken and stacked toes
(c) the veins in Tang's broken feet
(d) the shape of Tang's ears

3. Which is an example from the text of sensory details?
(a) noses against his coat to sniff his tobacco smell
(b) watched the man walk away
(c) gold coins that were really chocolate
(d) mother came out of the house

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

5. 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 keeps her visitors with her by making them make things for her.
(c) The woman is trying to distract the young man from the storm.
(d) The woman is poor and needs a pair of shoes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What makes the author afraid to name the village in China where her family lives?

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

3. How long had Ed been away from China before he and MaMa were reunited in New York City?

4. Why does the young man enter the house of the young widow?

5. What do the women do to help stir the cool female winds inside Tang's body?

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