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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. Why is there a communal dining room at the Chinese village where Kingston's ancestors lived?
(a) All the villagers' homes are destroyed by bombs.
(b) The Communists serve food to villagers in large dining halls
(c) All the villagers are prisoners of war.
(d) It is a traditional way of sharing meals in Chinese villages.

2. The author of "The Li Sao" is
(a) Ch'u Yuan, China's earliest known poet
(b) The Goddess of the Hsiang River
(c) Kingston, when she was a teenager
(d) Uncle Kau Goong

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

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

5. What technology changes the way the Central Pacific Railroad tunnels through mountains in the Sierra Nevada?
(a) dynamite
(b) computers
(c) bulldozers
(d) automatic hammers

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the two old women do to Tang Ao with the needles?

2. For whom do the Juneau citizens hold the largest funeral Alaska ever sees?

3. What is supposedly the cause of the "Mongolian spot" on some Chinese babies?

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

5. What finally makes Tu Tzu-chun break his silence?

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