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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 Kingston think that Stockton is a special place to live?
(a) Kingston could ride the trains anytime she wanted.
(b) Flocks of hoboes were always around the tracks, keeping the city entertaining.
(c) Kingston's grandfathers worked on the tracks in Stockton where Kingston and her family live.
(d) Stockton, CA, is the only city with three intersecting railroads.

2. From whom do MaMa and Father have to keep their savings a secret?
(a) the owner of the Gambling House
(b) their neighbors in Stockton
(c) their six children
(d) MaMa's sister living in San Francisco

3. How does Kingston show that the main character is enjoying his feast with the woman of the house in "The Ghostmate"?
(a) Kingston says the meal lasts a long while.
(b) Kingston says that the young man hears a deer cry.
(c) Kingston says he feeds like an aristocrat.
(d) Kingston describes the disgusting way that the young man eats.

4. Why do the basketmen stop working in autumn?
(a) The season is a Chinese holiday
(b) Men do not have the right clothes
(c) The baskets would fall apart because of age
(d) The winds are too high to work at high elevation

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who are the children referring to when they call out, "BaBa!"?

2. What signed document states that Chinese and Americans could freely travel, trade, and live in either country?

3. To what does Kingston refer with the metaphor "the living night"?

4. What are the "Jesus demons" trying to do when they visit the work camp where Bak Goong lives?

5. How do the women manage to capture Tang Ao?

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