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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does great grandfather Bak Goong break the rules of silence while working in Sandalwood Mountain?
(a) Bak Goong sends written notes to other workers.
(b) Bak Goong deliberately sings in front of the masters.
(c) Bak Goong coughs out Chinese words the masters cannot understand.
(d) Bak Goong talks quietly to himself.

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

3. What is the result of the 1952 Immigration and Nationality Act?
(a) It restricted immigration into the United States.
(b) It allowed merchant wives to enter the country.
(c) It allowed thousands of Hong Kong parolees to enter the U.S.
(d) It distributed 18,000 visas that had not been used.

4. What is happening on the East Coast at the same time as the Central Pacific is forging through the Sierra Nevada Mountains in the West?
(a) World War I
(b) The U.S. Civil War
(c) The Revolutionary War
(d) The French and Indian War

5. In "The Ghostmate," what does the young man see along the path that comforts him a little?
(a) rabbits
(b) peacocks
(c) charging dogs
(d) red paper

6. Which railroad company building the Transcontinental Railroad does Ah Goong work for?
(a) The Mississippi Railroad
(b) the Central Pacific Railroad
(c) the Union Pacific Railroad
(d) The Colorado Railroad

7. What is Tang Ao doing when he meets the Queen?
(a) serving a meal to the Queen's court
(b) playing an instrument
(c) putting jade studs into his ears
(d) having a meal with the queen's court

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

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

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

11. How do Ed's partners swindle him out of the business?
(a) The partners kidnap MaMa for ransom that Ed has to pay.
(b) The partners pocket cash from laundry orders as often as they can.
(c) The partners tell him he missed the meeting where they put themselves in charge.
(d) The partners spend all the profits dancing with women on Saturday nights.

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

13. Which is the setting for Kingston's biography of great grandfather Bak Goong in "The Great Grandfather of Sandalwood Mountains"?
(a) Taiwan
(b) Cuba
(c) California
(d) Hawaii

14. What were the Chinese wives most likely afraid of when their husbands left for Gold Mountain?
(a) that their husbands would settle in America with new wives
(b) that their husbands might bring back a new wife
(c) that their husbands will get harmed by bandits while still in China
(d) that their husbands would return broke and broken

15. How many fortunes does Tu Tzu-chun spend?
(a) one
(b) two
(c) three
(d) none

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Father acknowledge that he recognizes the children?

2. What does Ah Goong say about working in the tunnels?

3. What signed document states that Chinese and Americans could freely travel, trade, and live in either country?

4. How are the two tales, "On Mortality" and "On Mortality Again" similar?

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

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