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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Father from China.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which best describes the setting of "On Fathers"?
(a) a street in Stockton, CA
(b) downtown
(c) the author's yard
(d) a farm in rural area

2. How does the stranger respond to the children's mistake?
(a) He is speechless and ignores them altogether.
(b) He gets angry and yells at Mother.
(c) He laughs and tells them they made a mistake.
(d) He swats the children away from him as if they were flies.

3. Which is an example from the text of sensory details?
(a) mother came out of the house
(b) noses against his coat to sniff his tobacco smell
(c) gold coins that were really chocolate
(d) watched the man walk away

4. 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 is tall and thin.
(d) He continues his walk down our street.

5. What is the last thing the women do to prepare Tang to meet the queen?
(a) force Tang to wash his used bandages
(b) feed Tang chicken wings to make his hair shine
(c) powder Tang's face and put makeup on him
(d) pierce Tang's ears

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Father acknowledge that he recognizes the children?

3. Why does Kingston grow up thinking her Father hates girls and women?

4. Where do Ed and MaMa go after Ed is ousted from the laundry business?

5. What were the Chinese wives most likely afraid of when their husbands left for Gold Mountain?

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