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

2. How might Kingston's father's life have been different had he passed the Imperial Examinations with honors?
(a) Kingston's father may not have come to Gold Mountain.
(b) Kingston's father may have married an American woman.
(c) Kingston's father may not have had to work a single day in his life.
(d) Kingston's father may have traveled the world in luxury.

3. Why do the children reach into the man's pockets?
(a) The children are looking for his photo identification.
(b) The children think he has something that belongs to them.
(c) The children want to steal his money.
(d) The children expect to find surprises for them in his pockets.

4. What do the women do to help stir the cool female winds inside Tang's body?
(a) unwrap the bindings from Tang's feet
(b) make Tang sit in the rain and wind
(c) make Tang wash the bandages used to bind his feet
(d) giveTang tea with white chrysanthemums

5. What purpose does the mother character serve by entering the story at this point?
(a) She moves the plot along and explains how the children could make such a mistake.
(b) She introduces a conflict that the children have to solve.
(c) She becomes the focus of the children so that they stop focusing on the stranger.
(d) She provides an adult female presence to balance the male presence of the stranger.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does the narrator in "The Ghostmate" compare the woman's hair?

2. How do Ed's partners swindle him out of the business?

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

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

5. What is the Chinaman's hat in "The Great Grandfather of the Sandalwood Mountains"?

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