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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. 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 would punish Kingston and her siblings by not speaking to them.
(d) Father wakes up screaming from nightmares at night.

2. Who are the children referring to when they call out, "BaBa!"?
(a) their grandparents
(b) their mother
(c) their father
(d) the stranger

3. How does Father acknowledge that he recognizes the children?
(a) He picks up the pace of his walk to a jog.
(b) He waves his hands and smiles broadly.
(c) He turned around and walked the other direction.
(d) He salutes them with one finger touching his hat.

4. What is the last thing the women do to prepare Tang to meet the queen?
(a) pierce Tang's ears
(b) feed Tang chicken wings to make his hair shine
(c) force Tang to wash his used bandages
(d) powder Tang's face and put makeup on him

5. Which best describes the genre of these two chapters: "The Ghostmate" and "The Father From America"?
(a) autobiography and biography
(b) realistic fiction and autobiography
(c) folktale and nonfiction
(d) fantasy tale and biography

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the meaning of the word hastening in the opening lines of "On Fathers"?

2. Which details from the text imply that Father is a successful business man?

3. How does great grandfather Bak Goong break the rules of silence while working in Sandalwood Mountain?

4. Which is the setting for Kingston's biography of great grandfather Bak Goong in "The Great Grandfather of Sandalwood Mountains"?

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

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