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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 kind of business does Father buy?
(a) a laundry
(b) a tobacco shop
(c) a barbershop
(d) a gambling house

2. Which of the following indicates that "The Ghostmate" is a fantasy?
(a) naked drought-dwarfs with one eye on top run for cover
(b) mountains rise until the peaks fade from sight
(c) the winds whip up
(d) trees howl and bend to earth

3. What is the Chinaman's hat in "The Great Grandfather of the Sandalwood Mountains"?
(a) an island
(b) a hat to protect the Chinese workers
(c) the place in town where Chinese workers gamble
(d) the top of Sandalwood Mountain

4. Who were the Gold Mountain Sojourners?
(a) the men who went to America and then returned to China
(b) the white demons that control the immigrant Chinese men
(c) the men who mined the gold in America
(d) the teachers who graded papers every night for the Chinese children

5. What action does Maui take that tells the reader where Hina sleeps?
(a) Maui dives into the ocean.
(b) Maui pulled the land up out of the ocean.
(c) Maui pushes the sky higher.
(d) Maui brought fire to Earth.

Short Answer Questions

1. How are the two tales, "On Mortality" and "On Mortality Again" similar?

2. How does Kingston's Father avoid the draft?

3. What does Uncle Bun accuse Father of doing?

4. How might Kingston's father's life have been different had he passed the Imperial Examinations with honors?

5. The seer does not disturb the spirits in the clouds in "On Mortality Again" __________________________.

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