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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. Which of the following is not something Sao does at his mother's grave?
(a) heaps food and presents on her grave
(b) pours wine into the earth
(c) lights on fire paper replicas of money
(d) lights incense set in pails of sand

2. Which character from Kingston's folktales in China Men suffers the most?
(a) The young man
(b) Maui the trickster in
(c) Bak Goong the great grandfather
(d) Tu Tzu-chun

3. What does the Hundred-Year-Old man do to rest during his trips to town early in his time in Hawaii?
(a) smokes cigars
(b) gambles
(c) spends money on women
(d) smokes opium

4. Which details from the text imply that Father is a successful business man?
(a) He continues his walk down our street.
(b) He wears two-hundred dollar suits and good leather shoes with wingtips.
(c) He is tall and thin.
(d) He wears a coat with tobacco smell.

5. How does the stranger respond to the children's mistake?
(a) He laughs and tells them they made a mistake.
(b) He gets angry and yells at Mother.
(c) He swats the children away from him as if they were flies.
(d) He is speechless and ignores them altogether.

Short Answer Questions

1. In addition to self-defense, what is the most influential element in the rule of law in Alaska in 1885?

2. Why do the basketmen stop working in autumn?

3. Which congressional act in 1882 bans Chinese laborers from entering the U.S. for ten years?

4. What is the significance of the Supreme Court ruling in the1898 case, The United States v. Wong Kim Ark?

5. To what does this simile refer: "Sap ran from its cuts like crying blind eyes"?

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