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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. Which best describes the genre of these two chapters: "The Ghostmate" and "The Father From America"?
(a) folktale and nonfiction
(b) realistic fiction and autobiography
(c) fantasy tale and biography
(d) autobiography and biography

2. What is the one emotion that Tu Tzu-chun cannot overcome in his illusion?
(a) joy
(b) sorrow
(c) desire
(d) love

3. Which is the setting for Kingston's biography of great grandfather Bak Goong in "The Great Grandfather of Sandalwood Mountains"?
(a) California
(b) Cuba
(c) Taiwan
(d) Hawaii

4. Which Supreme Court case overturns San Francisco safety ordinances, thereby admitting that California laws are designed to harass Chinese immigrants?
(a) Yick Wo v. Hopkins
(b) The United States v. Mrs. Cue Lim
(c) Chae Chan Ping v. The United States
(d) Yue Ting v. The United States

5. To what does the narrator in "The Ghostmate" compare the woman's hair?
(a) lumps of peacocks
(b) follows her retreating back
(c) a light-colored dress
(d) long black tail alive

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the monk say Tu Tzu-chun has to do to repay him the third time?

2. Which of the following is not something Sao does at his mother's grave?

3. In what year did the U.S. immigration laws discard the Western Hemisphere quota and move to a worldwide quota?

4. Which character from Kingston's folktales in China Men suffers the most?

5. In "The Ghostmate," what does the young man see along the path that comforts him a little?

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