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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. In Honolulu, what does Kingston's friend, the dancer, report about Kingston's ancestral village?
(a) the people in the village are ignorant and lazy
(b) the people greeted her with a parade
(c) family members had been forced out to build apartments
(d) the people are housed and fed

2. What amount of pay is given to the Chinese workers in Hawaii for working in the cane fields?
(a) Four dollars and thirty cents
(b) Four dollars a month
(c) Four dollars a week
(d) One dollar a week

3. What is it that Maui instructs all the living creatures on Earth to do in order to accomplish his goal?
(a) sing in tune
(b) walk on water
(c) read the clouds
(d) stay silent

4. From what point of view is "On Fathers" written?
(a) third--person omniscient
(b) third-person limited
(c) first-person observer
(d) first-person narrative

5. What finally makes Tu Tzu-chun break his silence?
(a) Tu speaks for the first time.
(b) Tu sees her baby's head smashed against the rocks.
(c) Tu Tzu-chun screamed when he heard his wife's bones being broken.
(d) The pain Tu Tzu-chun feels when he's being tortured.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the wife that great grandfather Bak Sook Goong takes back to China affect Kingston's heritage?

2. What feature of the Wild Man that Kingston saw as a child is distinctly different from the Wild Man caught in 1975?

3. What kind of poem does Ch'u Yuan write before he drowns?

4. What action does Maui take that tells the reader where Hina sleeps?

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

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