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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 was Ch'u Yuan banished from the Center and from the Royal Court?
(a) Ch'u Yuan seeks the opinion of fishermen and other non-royals.
(b) The King asks Ch'u Yuan to spread his philosophy to the outer world.
(c) Ch'u Yuan is a spy for the Ch'in army.
(d) The King blames Ch'u Yuan for losing the war against Ch'in.

2. Which railroad company building the Transcontinental Railroad does Ah Goong work for?
(a) The Colorado Railroad
(b) the Central Pacific Railroad
(c) the Union Pacific Railroad
(d) The Mississippi Railroad

3. What is inside of Hina that holds immortality for humanity?
(a) heart
(b) baby
(c) liver
(d) eyes

4. Who were the Gold Mountain Sojourners?
(a) the teachers who graded papers every night for the Chinese children
(b) the men who mined the gold in America
(c) the men who went to America and then returned to China
(d) the white demons that control the immigrant Chinese men

5. What does Ah Goong, BaBa's father, do with BaBa that horrifies the family?
(a) Ah Goong sang girl songs to BaBa.
(b) Ah Goong trades BaBa for a neighbor's girl baby.
(c) Ah Goong jumped on BaBa's stomach for hours.
(d) Ah Goong climbed high up to a second floor window to watch BaBa be born.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does it finally take to capture the Wild Man of the Green Swamp?

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

3. In the second telling of the Driving Out in Alaska, what do returning China Men do to get back to their homes and their jobs?

4. What purpose does the mother character serve by entering the story at this point?

5. How are the two tales, "On Mortality" and "On Mortality Again" similar?

(see the answer key)

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