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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 procedure that the women are using on Tang's feet called?
(a) swaddling
(b) streaming
(c) bandaging
(d) footbinding

2. Why does Kingston grow up thinking her Father hates girls and women?
(a) Kingston has memories of her father cursing about gypsies that swindled him.
(b) Father had a bad experience with his own mother that Kingston doesn't understand.
(c) Father wakes up screaming from nightmares at night.
(d) Father would punish Kingston and her siblings by not speaking to them.

3. What are the "Jesus demons" trying to do when they visit the work camp where Bak Goong lives?
(a) trying to lure them to work at their farm
(b) trying to convert the Chinese to Christianity
(c) trying to baptize the Chinese workers
(d) trying to cast demons from the Chinese workers

4. Which is the setting for Kingston's biography of great grandfather Bak Goong in "The Great Grandfather of Sandalwood Mountains"?
(a) Cuba
(b) Hawaii
(c) California
(d) Taiwan

5. Where in the world is the Women's Land according to ancient scholars?
(a) North America
(b) Africa
(c) China
(d) Antarctica

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Chan Moong Gut in "The Great Grandfather of the Sandalwood Mountains"?

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

3. Who are the children referring to when they call out, "BaBa!"?

4. Why would the woman in "The Ghostmate" ask the young man to make her shoes?

5. What does a Chinese bride do for three nights before she marries?

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