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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do Ed's partners swindle him out of the business?
(a) The partners tell him he missed the meeting where they put themselves in charge.
(b) The partners kidnap MaMa for ransom that Ed has to pay.
(c) The partners pocket cash from laundry orders as often as they can.
(d) The partners spend all the profits dancing with women on Saturday nights.

2. What mood does the letter from Kingston's friend, the physicist, reflect about his return visit to their common ancestral village?
(a) indifference
(b) hopeful
(c) despair
(d) hostile

3. Which character from Kingston's folktales in China Men suffers the most?
(a) Tu Tzu-chun
(b) Bak Goong the great grandfather
(c) The young man
(d) Maui the trickster in

4. What is an immortal?
(a) A character in tales who dies at the end of the story.
(b) A magician who can stop time.
(c) A person who hurts others without regret.
(d) A human who lives forever, according to legend

5. What is inside of Hina that holds immortality for humanity?
(a) eyes
(b) baby
(c) heart
(d) liver

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is supposedly the cause of the "Mongolian spot" on some Chinese babies?

3. Which two islands does Kingston suggest her father had gone to before entering America?

4. Who is the narrator in this chapter?

5. Which of the following is an example of a simile used in "The Ghostmate"?

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