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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. To what does the narrator in "The Ghostmate" compare the woman's hair?
(a) a light-colored dress
(b) lumps of peacocks
(c) follows her retreating back
(d) long black tail alive

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

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

4. Where do Ed and MaMa go after Ed is ousted from the laundry business?
(a) to Alaska
(b) to the movies
(c) to Long Island
(d) to California

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the last thing the women do to prepare Tang to meet the queen?

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

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

4. What metaphor does Tang use to compare his bandages hanging to dry?

5. Which of the following indicates that "The Ghostmate" is a fantasy?

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