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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. What does it finally take to capture the Wild Man of the Green Swamp?
(a) an air and land search by a posse
(b) tracking dogs and hunters with guns
(c) a farmer hold him at gunpoint until the authorities arrive
(d) a sophisticated trap set in the swamp

2. What is Tang Ao doing when he meets the Queen?
(a) serving a meal to the Queen's court
(b) playing an instrument
(c) putting jade studs into his ears
(d) having a meal with the queen's court

3. 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

4. What part of Tang Ao's wardrobe is shaped like a bridge?
(a) apron
(b) shoes
(c) tunic
(d) hat

5. Which is an example from the text of sensory details?
(a) noses against his coat to sniff his tobacco smell
(b) gold coins that were really chocolate
(c) watched the man walk away
(d) mother came out of the house

Short Answer Questions

1. What purpose does the mother character serve by entering the story at this point?

2. Which best describes the genre of these two chapters: "The Ghostmate" and "The Father From America"?

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

4. What is the Chinaman's hat in "The Great Grandfather of the Sandalwood Mountains"?

5. Why is this Maui's last deed?

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