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

2. Why does the young man enter the house of the young widow?
(a) He seeks shelter from a storm along the mountain path.
(b) He is being chased by dogs.
(c) He is selling wares door-to-door
(d) He is lonely and seeks companionship.

3. What is the simile "like a knot of ginger root" referring to?
(a) the veins in Tang's broken feet
(b) the shape of Tang's ears
(c) Tang's broken and stacked toes
(d) Tang's arthritic hands

4. Which of the following indicates that "The Ghostmate" is a fantasy?
(a) trees howl and bend to earth
(b) the winds whip up
(c) mountains rise until the peaks fade from sight
(d) naked drought-dwarfs with one eye on top run for cover

5. Who is the narrator in this chapter?
(a) the father
(b) the stranger
(c) the author
(d) the mother

Short Answer Questions

1. Which is an example from the text of sensory details?

2. What do the women do to help stir the cool female winds inside Tang's body?

3. Who travels to Alaska during the Driving Out to help end the violence?

4. Which two islands does Kingston suggest her father had gone to before entering America?

5. What mood does the letter from Kingston's friend, the physicist, reflect about his return visit to their common ancestral village?

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