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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Li Sao: An Elegy.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Guan Goong?
(a) one of Kingston's grandfathers
(b) the God of War and Literature
(c) a hero from China's revolution
(d) an actor in a play in Sacramento

2. In what year did the U.S. immigration laws discard the Western Hemisphere quota and move to a worldwide quota?
(a) 1976
(b) 1978
(c) 1950
(d) 1948

3. What was used first to keep the holes open in Tang Ao's earlobes?
(a) sticks of straw
(b) gold loops
(c) jade studs
(d) silk threads

4. What metaphor does Tang use to compare his bandages hanging to dry?
(a) like a moth's wings
(b) gathered his toes over and under another
(c) like underwear
(d) streamers that drooped and draped wall to wall

5. What signed document states that Chinese and Americans could freely travel, trade, and live in either country?
(a) the Nationality Act
(b) the queue tax
(c) the Fourteenth Amendment
(d) the Burlingame Treaty

Short Answer Questions

1. How many fortunes does Tu Tzu-chun spend?

2. Who is the narrator in this chapter?

3. For what does the doctor at the jail treat the Wild Man?

4. Which of the following is an example of figurative language?

5. What culture is the character Maui from in "On Mortality Again"?

(see the answer key)

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