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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. What is the simile "like a knot of ginger root" referring to?
(a) the shape of Tang's ears
(b) Tang's broken and stacked toes
(c) Tang's arthritic hands
(d) the veins in Tang's broken feet

2. What action does Maui take that tells the reader where Hina sleeps?
(a) Maui pulled the land up out of the ocean.
(b) Maui dives into the ocean.
(c) Maui brought fire to Earth.
(d) Maui pushes the sky higher.

3. How were the Indians in Alaska treated by the "gold seeking" miners?
(a) They are driven out at gunpoint.
(b) They are welcomed as extra labor.
(c) Some are tortured and murdered in public.
(d) They are kept as slaves by white demons.

4. What details do we learn about the Wild Man when he talks to the translator in his jail cell?
(a) The Wild Man had many friends on the freighter ship and he was confused by their attempts to send him to a foreign country.
(b) The Wild Man captured a four-foot alligator.
(c) The Wild Man is 39-years-old and has seven children in Taiwan.
(d) The Wild Man has been a seaman his entire life.

5. 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?
(a) The French and Indian War
(b) World War I
(c) The Revolutionary War
(d) The U.S. Civil War

Short Answer Questions

1. What is it that Maui instructs all the living creatures on Earth to do in order to accomplish his goal?

2. What does a Chinese bride do for three nights before she marries?

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

4. What is Tang Ao doing when he meets the Queen?

5. What sight does the bird see that causes it to start laughing?

(see the answer key)

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