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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through On Mortality Again.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What rule do the "white demons" enforce that is problematic for great grandfather Bak Goong while he is working in the sugar cane fields?
(a) singing
(b) working
(c) counting
(d) silence

2. Who were the Gold Mountain Sojourners?
(a) the men who went to America and then returned to China
(b) the white demons that control the immigrant Chinese men
(c) the teachers who graded papers every night for the Chinese children
(d) the men who mined the gold in America

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

4. What action does Maui take that tells the reader where Hina sleeps?
(a) Maui brought fire to Earth.
(b) Maui dives into the ocean.
(c) Maui pushes the sky higher.
(d) Maui pulled the land up out of the ocean.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Honolulu, what does Kingston's friend, the dancer, report about Kingston's ancestral village?

2. Which character from Kingston's folktales in China Men suffers the most?

3. What culture is the character Maui from in "On Mortality Again"?

4. How does the woman in "The Ghostmate" get her visitors to stay longer than they intend to?

5. How are the two tales, "On Mortality" and "On Mortality Again" similar?

(see the answer key)

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