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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. Tu cannot deliver his messages and take care of his urgent things after he exits the tunnel because _____________________________.
(a) Explosions inside the tunnel made Tu deaf and mute.
(b) The tunnel is a passage to his rebirth as an infant.
(c) When he ermerges from the tunnel, he is lost.
(d) No one will listen to Tu's messages or help him with urgent matters.

2. What do the women do to help stir the cool female winds inside Tang's body?
(a) make Tang wash the bandages used to bind his feet
(b) unwrap the bindings from Tang's feet
(c) giveTang tea with white chrysanthemums
(d) make Tang sit in the rain and wind

3. The author of "The Li Sao" is
(a) Ch'u Yuan, China's earliest known poet
(b) Kingston, when she was a teenager
(c) Uncle Kau Goong
(d) The Goddess of the Hsiang River

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 a black man.
(c) The Wild Man Kingston saw was never captured.
(d) The Wild Man Kingston saw was naked.

5. Where do Ed and MaMa go after Ed is ousted from the laundry business?
(a) to the movies
(b) to California
(c) to Alaska
(d) to Long Island

Short Answer Questions

1. How many China Men make up the Chinese population in Alaska?

2. What is happening on the East Coast at the same time as the Central Pacific is forging through the Sierra Nevada Mountains in the West?

3. Why was Ch'u Yuan banished from the Center and from the Royal Court?

4. What does it finally take to capture the Wild Man of the Green Swamp?

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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