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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. Which character from Kingston's folktales in China Men suffers the most?
(a) Bak Goong the great grandfather
(b) Tu Tzu-chun
(c) Maui the trickster in
(d) The young man

2. In 1884, who is the first Chinese immigrant denied citizenship based on race?
(a) Wong Kim Ark
(b) Yue Ting
(c) Chan Young
(d) Yick Wo

3. How does the woman in "The Ghostmate" get her visitors to stay longer than they intend to?
(a) She convinces the young man that she is better for him than his wife.
(b) She brings the young man the very fruits, the very poem, the very game he likes best.
(c) She locks the young man in the dungeon.
(d) She tells the young man the long story of her tragic life.

4. What drives the Wild Man to hysterics while he is in the jail?
(a) severe homesickness
(b) being locked up for three days straight
(c) The Border Patrol is sending him back.
(d) not being able to speak with the authorities

5. How does Father acknowledge that he recognizes the children?
(a) He picks up the pace of his walk to a jog.
(b) He turned around and walked the other direction.
(c) He waves his hands and smiles broadly.
(d) He salutes them with one finger touching his hat.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were the Chinese wives most likely afraid of when their husbands left for Gold Mountain?

2. What is inside of Hina that holds immortality for humanity?

3. What metaphor does Tang use to compare his bandages hanging to dry?

4. What does Ah Po show BaBa's brothers to explain that he is different from them?

5. How does the game officer that first spots the Wild Man in the Green Swamp know that what he sees is not a bear?

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