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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 purpose does the mother character serve by entering the story at this point?
(a) She moves the plot along and explains how the children could make such a mistake.
(b) She introduces a conflict that the children have to solve.
(c) She provides an adult female presence to balance the male presence of the stranger.
(d) She becomes the focus of the children so that they stop focusing on the stranger.

2. 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 officers are sure the sightings are a mass hallucination.
(b) The officers are getting bitten by mosquitoes
(c) The dogs find no scent to follow.
(d) The searchers are convinced that no one could live in the swamp.

3. What does the blind fortune teller predict will happen to Kingston's San Francisco Aunt over her lifetime?
(a) Aunt will marry three times.
(b) Aunt will meet her husband in Hong Kong.
(c) Aunt will own a shoe store throughout her life.
(d) Aunt will gain and lose fortunes many times.

4. What does the Hundred-Year-Old Man say he carried with him from China to Hawai'i?
(a) mementos from China, such a photos of his family
(b) pigs in cages and chives and onions growing in cans
(c) extra water to keep his plants alive
(d) noodles, ginger, and dried fruit

5. Which of the following is an example of figurative language?
(a) He took our hands out of his pockets.
(b) man wears our father's two-hundred dollar suit.
(c) We jumped off the fence.
(d) His good leather shoes with the wingtips

Short Answer Questions

1. In the second telling of the Driving Out in Alaska, what do returning China Men do to get back to their homes and their jobs?

2. What message does young Kingston believe her grandfathers left behind through the tracks in Stockton?

3. Why would the woman in "The Ghostmate" ask the young man to make her shoes?

4. How do readers know that the Hundred-Year-Old Man took a job in Hawai'i that paid for passage and offered steady pay, just the same as Kingston's great grandfather?

5. Why is Maui capable of dying when other gods are immortal?

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