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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. Where in the world is the Women's Land according to ancient scholars?
(a) North America
(b) Africa
(c) China
(d) Antarctica

2. What kind of business does Father buy?
(a) a tobacco shop
(b) a barbershop
(c) a gambling house
(d) a laundry

3. What happens that begins Father's most dismal time in "The American Father"?
(a) The children get out of control, and Father beats his daughter with a hangar.
(b) The Gambling house is raided and closed permanently.
(c) MaMa has an accident at the cannery and dies.
(d) MaMa shames him into taking a low-wage laborer job.

4. How does the woman in "The Ghostmate" get her visitors to stay longer than they intend to?
(a) She locks the young man in the dungeon.
(b) She convinces the young man that she is better for him than his wife.
(c) She brings the young man the very fruits, the very poem, the very game he likes best.
(d) She tells the young man the long story of her tragic life.

5. What do people in Alaska do to track events in their lives and their community?
(a) post bulletins around towns
(b) produce a weekly newspaper
(c) hire a town crier
(d) write in diaries

Short Answer Questions

1. The author of "The Li Sao" is

2. What does the monk say Tu Tzu-chun has to do to repay him the third time?

3. In Honolulu, what does Kingston's friend, the dancer, report about Kingston's ancestral village?

4. How were the Indians in Alaska treated by the "gold seeking" miners?

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

(see the answer key)

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