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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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) silence
(b) singing
(c) counting
(d) working

4. What sight does the bird see that causes it to start laughing?
(a) Maui teaching the children to be silent
(b) Maui diving into the ocean
(c) Maui's legs as he tunnels out of Hina's vagina
(d) Maui entering Hina's vagina

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which is an example from the text of sensory details?

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

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

4. Why does the young man enter the house of the young widow?

5. Who is the narrator in this chapter?

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