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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Wild Man of the Green Swamp.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For whom do the Juneau citizens hold the largest funeral Alaska ever sees?
(a) China Joe
(b) Captain Carroll
(c) President of the Treadwell Mining Company
(d) Citizenship Judge

2. What is the significance of the Supreme Court ruling in the1898 case, The United States v. Wong Kim Ark?
(a) The decision states that treaty merchants could bring their Chinese wives and children to America to live.
(b) The decision lifts the restriction on immigration for Chinese.
(c) The decision states that San Francisco's safety ordinances are unfair to Chinese.
(d) The decision states that a person born in the U.S. to Chinese parents is an American.

3. Who is the narrator in this chapter?
(a) the father
(b) the author
(c) the stranger
(d) the mother

4. Which details from the text imply that Father is a successful business man?
(a) He continues his walk down our street.
(b) He wears a coat with tobacco smell.
(c) He wears two-hundred dollar suits and good leather shoes with wingtips.
(d) He is tall and thin.

5. What part of Tang Ao's wardrobe is shaped like a bridge?
(a) shoes
(b) apron
(c) tunic
(d) hat

Short Answer Questions

1. The seer does not disturb the spirits in the clouds in "On Mortality Again" __________________________.

2. What is the meaning of the word hastening in the opening lines of "On Fathers"?

3. In the second telling of the Driving Out in Alaska, what do returning China Men do to get back to their homes and their jobs?

4. What do people in Alaska do to track events in their lives and their community?

5. What was used first to keep the holes open in Tang Ao's earlobes?

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