1. 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 had a bad experience with his own mother that Kingston doesn't understand.
(d) Father wakes up screaming from nightmares at night.

2. In "The Ghostmate, what imagery does Kingston use when the main character arrives at the house?
(a) The storm dies when the young man knocks at a gate.
(b) A bolt of lightning illuminates the young man at the door.
(c) The music that accompanies the young man turns dark.
(d) The green and black trees twist and turn.

3. What were the Chinese wives most likely afraid of when their husbands left for Gold Mountain?
(a) that their husbands will get harmed by bandits while still in China
(b) that their husbands might bring back a new wife
(c) that their husbands would settle in America with new wives
(d) that their husbands would return broke and broken

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

5. Why do the children reach into the man's pockets?
(a) The children think he has something that belongs to them.
(b) The children expect to find surprises for them in his pockets.
(c) The children are looking for his photo identification.
(d) The children want to steal his money.