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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. Which is the setting for Kingston's biography of great grandfather Bak Goong in "The Great Grandfather of Sandalwood Mountains"?
(a) Cuba
(b) Taiwan
(c) California
(d) Hawaii

2. Why does Kingston grow up thinking her Father hates girls and women?
(a) Kingston has memories of her father cursing about gypsies that swindled him.
(b) Father would punish Kingston and her siblings by not speaking to them.
(c) Father wakes up screaming from nightmares at night.
(d) Father had a bad experience with his own mother that Kingston doesn't understand.

3. How long had Ed been away from China before he and MaMa were reunited in New York City?
(a) 2 years
(b) 15 years
(c) 5 years
(d) 10 years

4. Which best describes the author when she sends money to her cousin in China?
(a) a child in California
(b) an adult in California
(c) an adult in China
(d) a child in China

5. Which of the following is an example of figurative language?
(a) man wears our father's two-hundred dollar suit.
(b) His good leather shoes with the wingtips
(c) We jumped off the fence.
(d) He took our hands out of his pockets.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of the following is an example of a simile used in "The Ghostmate"?

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

4. Where do Ed and MaMa go after Ed is ousted from the laundry business?

5. What is the meaning of the word hastening in the opening lines of "On Fathers"?

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