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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. How does Father acknowledge that he recognizes the children?
(a) He picks up the pace of his walk to a jog.
(b) He turned around and walked the other direction.
(c) He salutes them with one finger touching his hat.
(d) He waves his hands and smiles broadly.

2. How many China Men make up the Chinese population in Alaska?
(a) 700
(b) 100
(c) 1,000
(d) 150

3. How does the game officer that first spots the Wild Man in the Green Swamp know that what he sees is not a bear?
(a) The officer calls out to the Wild Man who responds in a language the officer cannot understand.
(b) The Wild Man stands up and confronts the officer.
(c) The officer sees a figure hunched over a fire.
(d) The Wild Man drags a burlap bag behind him.

4. What is the simile "like a knot of ginger root" referring to?
(a) the veins in Tang's broken feet
(b) the shape of Tang's ears
(c) Tang's arthritic hands
(d) Tang's broken and stacked toes

5. Which anti-Chinese law comes first?
(a) Act to Amend an Act
(b) Scott Act
(c) The revised Burlingame Treaty
(d) Chinese Exclusion Act

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Guan Goong?

2. Why does the young man enter the house of the young widow?

3. Who is the narrator in this chapter?

4. What response does Kingston's oldest brother get from the Filipino and other island natives when he says he is a Chinese American?

5. What does the blind fortune teller predict will happen to Kingston's San Francisco Aunt over her lifetime?

(see the answer key)

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