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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 were the Chinese wives most likely afraid of when their husbands left for Gold Mountain?
(a) that their husbands would settle in America with new wives
(b) that their husbands will get harmed by bandits while still in China
(c) that their husbands might bring back a new wife
(d) that their husbands would return broke and broken

2. In Honolulu, what does Kingston's friend, the dancer, report about Kingston's ancestral village?
(a) family members had been forced out to build apartments
(b) the people in the village are ignorant and lazy
(c) the people are housed and fed
(d) the people greeted her with a parade

3. What does Ah Goong, BaBa's father, do with BaBa that horrifies the family?
(a) Ah Goong sang girl songs to BaBa.
(b) Ah Goong climbed high up to a second floor window to watch BaBa be born.
(c) Ah Goong jumped on BaBa's stomach for hours.
(d) Ah Goong trades BaBa for a neighbor's girl baby.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the two old women do to Tang Ao with the needles?

2. Which of the following is an example of figurative language?

3. Where in the world is the Women's Land according to ancient scholars?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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