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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. How do the women manage to capture Tang Ao?
(a) The women tackle him and tie his hands together.
(b) The women use weapons to make him come along.
(c) The women kneeled to take off his shoes.
(d) Tang Ao is not on guard against ladies.

2. Why is Maui capable of dying when other gods are immortal?
(a) Maui is vulnerable to disgrace and embarrassment among other living creatures on Earth.
(b) Maui can be reincarnated as many times as he wants.
(c) Maui is only a demigod, or partially mortal, in the Polynesian culture.
(d) Maui is a human with superhuman powers.

3. What did the Displaced Persons Act passed in 1948 offer Chinese immigrants?
(a) Homes for Chinese immigrants are given to those who are homeles
(b) The act allows Chinese people to bring their close family members to the U.S.
(c) between 1948-1954, ethnic Chinese could apply for citizenship.
(d) Special Citizenship Judges are appointed to get individual private bills passed for a price.

4. What metaphor does Tang use to compare his bandages hanging to dry?
(a) streamers that drooped and draped wall to wall
(b) gathered his toes over and under another
(c) like underwear
(d) like a moth's wings

5. Which railroad company building the Transcontinental Railroad does Ah Goong work for?
(a) the Central Pacific Railroad
(b) The Mississippi Railroad
(c) The Colorado Railroad
(d) the Union Pacific Railroad

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lo Sun Bun's father tell him before Lo heads out to sea?

2. How does Kingston refer to "The Adventures of Lo Bun Sun," based on her childhood perspective?

3. The author of "The Li Sao" is

4. What does the Wild Man do when he ventures out of the Green Swamp?

5. What finally makes Tu Tzu-chun break his silence?

(see the answer key)

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