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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Grandfather of the Sierra Nevada 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. What metaphor does Tang use to compare his bandages hanging to dry?
(a) streamers that drooped and draped wall to wall
(b) like underwear
(c) like a moth's wings
(d) gathered his toes over and under another

3. How does Kingston show that the main character is enjoying his feast with the woman of the house in "The Ghostmate"?
(a) Kingston says that the young man hears a deer cry.
(b) Kingston says the meal lasts a long while.
(c) Kingston describes the disgusting way that the young man eats.
(d) Kingston says he feeds like an aristocrat.

4. Who is the author speaking or writing to in the beginning of "The Father from China"?
(a) her readers
(b) her mother
(c) her father
(d) her siblings

5. Which is an example from the text of sensory details?
(a) watched the man walk away
(b) mother came out of the house
(c) noses against his coat to sniff his tobacco smell
(d) gold coins that were really chocolate

Short Answer Questions

1. What reason is given for torturing Tang Ao?

2. Why is this Maui's last deed?

3. What indicates to the young man in "The Ghostmate" that the woman is "old style"?

4. What mood does the letter from Kingston's friend, the physicist, reflect about his return visit to their common ancestral village?

5. What does Ah Goong say about working in the tunnels?

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