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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Great Grandfather of the Sandalwood Mountains.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What mood does the letter from Kingston's friend, the physicist, reflect about his return visit to their common ancestral village?
(a) despair
(b) hostile
(c) hopeful
(d) indifference

3. How does Kingston show that the main character is enjoying his feast with the woman of the house in "The Ghostmate"?
(a) Kingston says he feeds like an aristocrat.
(b) Kingston describes the disgusting way that the young man eats.
(c) Kingston says the meal lasts a long while.
(d) Kingston says that the young man hears a deer cry.

4. 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.

5. Why would the woman in "The Ghostmate" ask the young man to make her shoes?
(a) The woman wants her visitor to leave right away.
(b) The woman is poor and needs a pair of shoes.
(c) The woman keeps her visitors with her by making them make things for her.
(d) The woman is trying to distract the young man from the storm.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What reason is given for torturing Tang Ao?

3. How does the wife that great grandfather Bak Sook Goong takes back to China affect Kingston's heritage?

4. Why do the children reach into the man's pockets?

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

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