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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which is an example from the text of sensory details?
(a) gold coins that were really chocolate
(b) noses against his coat to sniff his tobacco smell
(c) watched the man walk away
(d) mother came out of the house

2. How long had Ed been away from China before he and MaMa were reunited in New York City?
(a) 5 years
(b) 2 years
(c) 15 years
(d) 10 years

3. Where in the world is the Women's Land according to ancient scholars?
(a) Africa
(b) North America
(c) Antarctica
(d) China

4. What does Ah Goong say about working in the tunnels?
(a) Time and space stop inside the tunnel.
(b) Mountains of dirt walked out of the tunnel.
(c) The sound of hammers only stop at night.
(d) Day becomes night.

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

6. What makes the author afraid to name the village in China where her family lives?
(a) Kingston's mother insists she did not reveal their secret.
(b) Tourists of the United States are listed as missing in newspapers
(c) Kingston's uncle threatens to kill her nephew if she does.
(d) stories of Communist arresting family member of immigrants

7. What did the Displaced Persons Act passed in 1948 offer Chinese immigrants?
(a) The act allows Chinese people to bring their close family members to the U.S.
(b) Homes for Chinese immigrants are given to those who are homeles
(c) Special Citizenship Judges are appointed to get individual private bills passed for a price.
(d) between 1948-1954, ethnic Chinese could apply for citizenship.

8. Which of the following is an example of figurative language?
(a) He took our hands out of his pockets.
(b) We jumped off the fence.
(c) His good leather shoes with the wingtips
(d) man wears our father's two-hundred dollar suit.

9. Why do the children reach into the man's pockets?
(a) The children are looking for his photo identification.
(b) The children want to steal his money.
(c) The children expect to find surprises for them in his pockets.
(d) The children think he has something that belongs to them.

10. How many days does the China Men's strike in the Sierra Nevada Mountains last before a compromise is made with the Central Pacific Railroad?
(a) nine days
(b) nine weeks
(c) two months
(d) one year

11. What signed document states that Chinese and Americans could freely travel, trade, and live in either country?
(a) the queue tax
(b) the Burlingame Treaty
(c) the Nationality Act
(d) the Fourteenth Amendment

12. To what does the narrator in "The Ghostmate" compare the woman's hair?
(a) lumps of peacocks
(b) follows her retreating back
(c) a light-colored dress
(d) long black tail alive

13. In 1884, who is the first Chinese immigrant denied citizenship based on race?
(a) Chan Young
(b) Yick Wo
(c) Yue Ting
(d) Wong Kim Ark

14. What does the monk say Tu Tzu-chun has to do to repay him the third time?
(a) spend another fortune
(b) work for him on an important difficult task
(c) murder his wife
(d) spend his fortune on others

15. Why is Maui capable of dying when other gods are immortal?
(a) Maui is only a demigod, or partially mortal, in the Polynesian culture.
(b) Maui is vulnerable to disgrace and embarrassment among other living creatures on Earth.
(c) Maui can be reincarnated as many times as he wants.
(d) Maui is a human with superhuman powers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is an immortal?

2. What is the last thing the women do to prepare Tang to meet the queen?

3. What do the women do to help stir the cool female winds inside Tang's body?

4. Who is Chan Moong Gut in "The Great Grandfather of the Sandalwood Mountains"?

5. Who is the narrator in this chapter?

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