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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Li Sao: An Elegy.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Great Aunt get herself smuggled into Hong Kong?
(a) Great Aunt had lived her whole life in one village and she wanted to see a big city.
(b) Great Aunt, a ninety years old, wants to prove to herself she can get to Hong Kong without being detected.
(c) Great Aunt is being hunted by the Communist in China.
(d) Great Aunt hopes Uncle Kau will live out their last days in Hong Kong since it is not Communist.

2. What tradition does Mad Sao perform at his mother's graveside that the Kingston family does not do after Uncle Kau's funeral?
(a) tosses fake money around
(b) carries a casket with the body in it
(c) pours liquor into the groun
(d) makes a fire and jump over it

3. What is the Chinaman's hat in "The Great Grandfather of the Sandalwood Mountains"?
(a) a hat to protect the Chinese workers
(b) an island
(c) the top of Sandalwood Mountain
(d) the place in town where Chinese workers gamble

4. What does the monk say Tu Tzu-chun has to do to repay him the third time?
(a) spend his fortune on others
(b) murder his wife
(c) spend another fortune
(d) work for him on an important difficult task

5. In Honolulu, what does Kingston's friend, the dancer, report about Kingston's ancestral village?
(a) the people greeted her with a parade
(b) the people in the village are ignorant and lazy
(c) family members had been forced out to build apartments
(d) the people are housed and fed

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following from "The Ghostmate" shows that the young man is feeling guilty about not returning to his family?

2. How does great grandfather Bak Goong break the rules of silence while working in Sandalwood Mountain?

3. Why does Sao Elder Brother become known as Mad Sao?

4. What do the women do to help stir the cool female winds inside Tang's body?

5. When the fish-and-game wardens and sheriff deputies use dogs to search for the Wild Man, why is their search so short?

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