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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. When the fish-and-game wardens and sheriff deputies use dogs to search for the Wild Man, why is their search so short?
(a) The officers are sure the sightings are a mass hallucination.
(b) The searchers are convinced that no one could live in the swamp.
(c) The officers are getting bitten by mosquitoes
(d) The dogs find no scent to follow.

2. What does the monk tell Tu Tzu-chun about the task he has in store for Tu?
(a) Talk, or I'll dash its head against the rocks.
(b) Swallow these three white pills.
(c) All that you will see and feel will be illusions.
(d) Hide your broken arms in your sleeves.

3. Which of the following is an example of figurative language?
(a) His good leather shoes with the wingtips
(b) He took our hands out of his pockets.
(c) We jumped off the fence.
(d) man wears our father's two-hundred dollar suit.

4. What reason is given for torturing Tang Ao?
(a) to make him look like a woman
(b) to teach him a lesson about respecting women
(c) to prepare Tang to meet the queen
(d) to punish him for coming to the Land of Women

5. Which tax is enforced on Chinese immigrants living in California in order to pay for the extra policing their presence requires?
(a) the police tax
(b) the laundry tax
(c) the cigar tax
(d) the cubic air ordinance

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does the narrator in "The Ghostmate" compare the woman's hair?

2. Why would the woman in "The Ghostmate" ask the young man to make her shoes?

3. What feature of the Wild Man that Kingston saw as a child is distinctly different from the Wild Man caught in 1975?

4. What does Uncle Bun accuse Father of doing?

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

(see the answer key)

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