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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. What is the meaning of the word hastening in the opening lines of "On Fathers"?
(a) stopping to tie shoe laces
(b) speeding up the pace of walking
(c) slowing down the pace of walking
(d) running quickly by

2. Which details from the text imply that Father is a successful business man?
(a) He wears a coat with tobacco smell.
(b) He is tall and thin.
(c) He wears two-hundred dollar suits and good leather shoes with wingtips.
(d) He continues his walk down our street.

3. What is Tang Ao doing when he meets the Queen?
(a) having a meal with the queen's court
(b) putting jade studs into his ears
(c) playing an instrument
(d) serving a meal to the Queen's court

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

5. What do the two old women do to Tang Ao with the needles?
(a) pierce Tang's tongue
(b) sew Tang's lips shut
(c) pin Tang's ears to his head
(d) pierce Tang's ears

Short Answer Questions

1. Which best describes the setting of "On Fathers"?

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

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

4. Who is the narrator in this chapter?

5. What was used first to keep the holes open in Tang Ao's earlobes?

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