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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 best describes the setting of "On Fathers"?
(a) a farm in rural area
(b) downtown
(c) a street in Stockton, CA
(d) the author's yard

2. How does the game officer that first spots the Wild Man in the Green Swamp know that what he sees is not a bear?
(a) The Wild Man stands up and confronts the officer.
(b) The officer sees a figure hunched over a fire.
(c) The officer calls out to the Wild Man who responds in a language the officer cannot understand.
(d) The Wild Man drags a burlap bag behind him.

3. What purpose does the mother character serve by entering the story at this point?
(a) She becomes the focus of the children so that they stop focusing on the stranger.
(b) She provides an adult female presence to balance the male presence of the stranger.
(c) She introduces a conflict that the children have to solve.
(d) She moves the plot along and explains how the children could make such a mistake.

4. Which congressional act in 1882 bans Chinese laborers from entering the U.S. for ten years?
(a) the revoking of Certificate of Residence
(b) Chinese Exclusion Act
(c) the revised Burlingame Treaty
(d) Nationality Act

5. How does Kingston's Father avoid the draft?
(a) The Chinese American landlord pulls strings to get Father released.
(b) The doctors say Father was too skinny.
(c) The doctors say he is too fat.
(d) The doctors find ink in his blood.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Great Aunt get herself smuggled into Hong Kong?

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

3. What does Kingston notice about the Wild Man as shown in the photos of his capture appearing in the newspaper?

4. What does the blind fortune teller predict will happen to Kingston's San Francisco Aunt over her lifetime?

5. Why does Kingston think that Stockton is a special place to live?

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