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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Hundred-Year-Old Man.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What rule do the "white demons" enforce that is problematic for great grandfather Bak Goong while he is working in the sugar cane fields?
(a) working
(b) singing
(c) counting
(d) silence

2. When does the story of Tu-Tzu-chin take place?
(a) modern times
(b) middle of the 19th century
(c) middle of the 1st century
(d) middle of the 16th century

3. What does the monk say Tu Tzu-chun has to do to repay him the third time?
(a) spend his fortune on others
(b) spend another fortune
(c) work for him on an important difficult task
(d) murder his wife

4. What feature of the Wild Man that Kingston saw as a child is distinctly different from the Wild Man caught in 1975?
(a) The Wild Man Kingston saw was dirty.
(b) The Wild Man Kingston saw was never captured.
(c) The Wild Man Kingston saw was naked.
(d) The Wild Man Kingston saw was a black man.

5. 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) MaMa's sister living in San Francisco
(d) their six children

Short Answer Questions

1. How many fortunes does Tu Tzu-chun spend?

2. What reason do the white miners give for the decision to drive out the China Men?

3. What makes the author afraid to name the village in China where her family lives?

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

5. What kind of business does Father buy?

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