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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 of the following is an example of a simile used in "The Ghostmate"?
(a) He gorges; he indulges his appetite.
(b) The bowls of soup are bottomless.
(c) The orange of the firelight suffuses the prorcelain.
(d) Steam rises as if a mirage of food floated on the table.

2. From what point of view is "On Fathers" written?
(a) first-person narrative
(b) first-person observer
(c) third--person omniscient
(d) third-person limited

3. 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 becomes the focus of the children so that they stop focusing on the stranger.
(c) She provides an adult female presence to balance the male presence of the stranger.
(d) She introduces a conflict that the children have to solve.

4. What indicates to the young man in "The Ghostmate" that the woman is "old style"?
(a) long combs and traditional eye make-up
(b) she serves him a meal
(c) the food is just the right temperature
(d) he does not like the clothing she left him

5. Which best describes the author when she sends money to her cousin in China?
(a) a child in China
(b) an adult in California
(c) an adult in China
(d) a child in California

Short Answer Questions

1. What part of Tang Ao's wardrobe is shaped like a bridge?

2. What does Ah Po show BaBa's brothers to explain that he is different from them?

3. How might Kingston's father's life have been different had he passed the Imperial Examinations with honors?

4. Why is there a communal dining room at the Chinese village where Kingston's ancestors lived?

5. How does the stranger respond to the children's mistake?

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