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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. How does the game officer that first spots the Wild Man in the Green Swamp know that what he sees is not a bear?
(a) The officer sees a figure hunched over a fire.
(b) The Wild Man stands up and confronts the officer.
(c) The officer calls out to the Wild Man who responds in a language the officer cannot understand.
(d) The Wild Man drags a burlap bag behind him.

2. Which details from the text imply that Father is a successful business man?
(a) He wears two-hundred dollar suits and good leather shoes with wingtips.
(b) He wears a coat with tobacco smell.
(c) He continues his walk down our street.
(d) He is tall and thin.

3. What reason is given for torturing Tang Ao?
(a) to prepare Tang to meet the queen
(b) to punish him for coming to the Land of Women
(c) to teach him a lesson about respecting women
(d) to make him look like a woman

4. What does Kingston hear from her schoolmates that makes her long to be normal?
(a) Kingston must walk home with her huge uncle everyday.
(b) Kingston's schoolmates make fun of her clothes.
(c) The other children speak of family members saying, "I love you."
(d) Children speak of being spanked and being kissed goodnight

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the blind fortune teller predict will happen to Kingston's San Francisco Aunt over her lifetime?

2. What does Kingston notice about the Wild Man as shown in the photos of his capture appearing in the newspaper?

3. The seer does not disturb the spirits in the clouds in "On Mortality Again" __________________________.

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

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

(see the answer key)

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