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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 of the following is an example of figurative language?
(a) man wears our father's two-hundred dollar suit.
(b) His good leather shoes with the wingtips
(c) We jumped off the fence.
(d) He took our hands out of his pockets.

2. Who are the children referring to when they call out, "BaBa!"?
(a) their grandparents
(b) their mother
(c) their father
(d) the stranger

3. Who is the author speaking or writing to in the beginning of "The Father from China"?
(a) her siblings
(b) her mother
(c) her father
(d) her readers

4. What is the procedure that the women are using on Tang's feet called?
(a) footbinding
(b) bandaging
(c) swaddling
(d) streaming

5. How does Father acknowledge that he recognizes the children?
(a) He turned around and walked the other direction.
(b) He waves his hands and smiles broadly.
(c) He picks up the pace of his walk to a jog.
(d) He salutes them with one finger touching his hat.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Ah Goong, BaBa's father, do with BaBa that horrifies the family?

3. What does a Chinese bride do for three nights before she marries?

4. Which details from the text imply that Father is a successful business man?

5. What is the simile "like a knot of ginger root" referring to?

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