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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. Who is Guan Goong?
(a) the God of War and Literature
(b) one of Kingston's grandfathers
(c) a hero from China's revolution
(d) an actor in a play in Sacramento

2. Why does Sao Elder Brother become known as Mad Sao?
(a) Sao is haunted by his dead mother's ghosts and is seen and heard talking to no one.
(b) Sao is the only man in the family to be Americanized.
(c) Sao returns to Red China to care for his mother before she dies.
(d) Sao goes mad and becomes paranoid, accusing Father of stealing his money.

3. Why do the basketmen stop working in autumn?
(a) The season is a Chinese holiday
(b) The baskets would fall apart because of age
(c) The winds are too high to work at high elevation
(d) Men do not have the right clothes

4. When does the story of Tu-Tzu-chin take place?
(a) middle of the 16th century
(b) modern times
(c) middle of the 1st century
(d) middle of the 19th century

5. What is the significance of the court case, Chae Chan Ping v. The United States?
(a) This case adds one year of hard labor for illegal Chinese immigrants before being deported.
(b) This is the first case of a Chinese fighting against the Chinese Exclusion Acts.
(c) Congressmen call for the United States to be made up of a limited amount of elderly Chinese people.
(d) This is the first case to address the issue of Sojourners.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Ch'u Yuan looking for as he seeks another like him in the world?

2. What is the result of the 1952 Immigration and Nationality Act?

3. What month is stated as the date for both stories of the Driving Out in Alaska?

4. Why is there a communal dining room at the Chinese village where Kingston's ancestors lived?

5. What does the monk say Tu Tzu-chun has to do to repay him the third time?

(see the answer key)

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