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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. When the fish-and-game wardens and sheriff deputies use dogs to search for the Wild Man, why is their search so short?
(a) The searchers are convinced that no one could live in the swamp.
(b) The dogs find no scent to follow.
(c) The officers are sure the sightings are a mass hallucination.
(d) The officers are getting bitten by mosquitoes

2. What does the monk tell Tu Tzu-chun about the task he has in store for Tu?
(a) Hide your broken arms in your sleeves.
(b) All that you will see and feel will be illusions.
(c) Talk, or I'll dash its head against the rocks.
(d) Swallow these three white pills.

3. What is inside of Hina that holds immortality for humanity?
(a) heart
(b) baby
(c) eyes
(d) liver

4. What word best describes the meaning of Ch'u Yuan's name?
(a) righteous
(b) next king
(c) peace
(d) dirty crowd

5. What sight does the bird see that causes it to start laughing?
(a) Maui diving into the ocean
(b) Maui teaching the children to be silent
(c) Maui's legs as he tunnels out of Hina's vagina
(d) Maui entering Hina's vagina

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What rule do the "white demons" enforce that is problematic for great grandfather Bak Goong while he is working in the sugar cane fields?

3. What personal theory does Kingston recall testing when she was child?

4. Where do Ed and MaMa go after Ed is ousted from the laundry business?

5. Which is the setting for Kingston's biography of great grandfather Bak Goong in "The Great Grandfather of Sandalwood Mountains"?

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