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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. What does Ah Po show BaBa's brothers to explain that he is different from them?
(a) BaBa's head was shaped differently than theirs.
(b) BaBa's skinny, frail body had hands made for holding pens.
(c) BaBa's hair was a different color than theirs.
(d) BaBa was the largest boy born so far in the family.

2. What does a Chinese bride do for three nights before she marries?
(a) She hides from her groom-to-be and his family.
(b) She prepares three thousand wedding cakes.
(c) She listens to the prayers of women in the village.
(d) She sits behind bed curtains to sing and weep.

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

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

5. Which of the following indicates that "The Ghostmate" is a fantasy?
(a) trees howl and bend to earth
(b) the winds whip up
(c) mountains rise until the peaks fade from sight
(d) naked drought-dwarfs with one eye on top run for cover

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Tu Tzu-chun's examiner?

2. Why do the children reach into the man's pockets?

3. What is happening on the East Coast at the same time as the Central Pacific is forging through the Sierra Nevada Mountains in the West?

4. What is the consequence of Tu Tzu-chun failing the monk's test?

5. Which details from the text imply that Father is a successful business man?

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