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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 reason do the white miners give for the decision to drive out the China Men?
(a) for stoning a woman in Juneau
(b) for getting richer by working harder
(c) for paying Citizenship Judges to become citizens
(d) for fighting with the Indians

2. What happens after the bird laughs in "On Mortality Again"?
(a) Hina wakes up.
(b) Maui is eaten by Hina.
(c) The land falls back into the sea.
(d) Maui quickly escapes.

3. 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 searchers are convinced that no one could live in the swamp.
(c) The officers are getting bitten by mosquitoes
(d) The dogs find no scent to follow.

4. What drives the Wild Man to hysterics while he is in the jail?
(a) being locked up for three days straight
(b) severe homesickness
(c) The Border Patrol is sending him back.
(d) not being able to speak with the authorities

5. For whom do the Juneau citizens hold the largest funeral Alaska ever sees?
(a) Citizenship Judge
(b) China Joe
(c) Captain Carroll
(d) President of the Treadwell Mining Company

Short Answer Questions

1. What were the Chinese wives most likely afraid of when their husbands left for Gold Mountain?

2. How does great grandfather Bak Goong break the rules of silence while working in Sandalwood Mountain?

3. How were the Indians in Alaska treated by the "gold seeking" miners?

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

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

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