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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the meaning of the word hastening in the opening lines of "On Fathers"?
(a) speeding up the pace of walking
(b) running quickly by
(c) slowing down the pace of walking
(d) stopping to tie shoe laces

2. What is the significance of the court case, Chae Chan Ping v. The United States?
(a) This is the first case to address the issue of Sojourners.
(b) Congressmen call for the United States to be made up of a limited amount of elderly Chinese people.
(c) This case adds one year of hard labor for illegal Chinese immigrants before being deported.
(d) This is the first case of a Chinese fighting against the Chinese Exclusion Acts.

3. How does Kingston show that the main character is enjoying his feast with the woman of the house in "The Ghostmate"?
(a) Kingston describes the disgusting way that the young man eats.
(b) Kingston says the meal lasts a long while.
(c) Kingston says he feeds like an aristocrat.
(d) Kingston says that the young man hears a deer cry.

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

5. How are the two tales, "On Mortality" and "On Mortality Again" similar?
(a) The main character in both tales is the same.
(b) Both tales have the same mood or tone.
(c) Both tales are about achieving immortality for humanity.
(d) The setting of both tales is the same.

6. What condition does the monk set on what Tu Tzu-chun can do during his illusions?
(a) Tu Tzu-chun must avoid the kick from a god.
(b) Tu Tzu-chun cannot speak or scream during the test.
(c) Tu Tzu-chun must rescue his loved ones from the illusions.
(d) Tu Tzu-chun cannot move while watching the illusions.

7. Why does Kingston think that Stockton is a special place to live?
(a) Flocks of hoboes were always around the tracks, keeping the city entertaining.
(b) Stockton, CA, is the only city with three intersecting railroads.
(c) Kingston could ride the trains anytime she wanted.
(d) Kingston's grandfathers worked on the tracks in Stockton where Kingston and her family live.

8. What do the two old women do to Tang Ao with the needles?
(a) sew Tang's lips shut
(b) pierce Tang's tongue
(c) pierce Tang's ears
(d) pin Tang's ears to his head

9. What message does young Kingston believe her grandfathers left behind through the tracks in Stockton?
(a) The train will help you escape danger.
(b) Trains are dangerous and should be avoided.
(c) Stay in Stockton forever.
(d) Go somewhere important.

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

11. Which of the following indicates that "The Ghostmate" is a fantasy?
(a) mountains rise until the peaks fade from sight
(b) trees howl and bend to earth
(c) the winds whip up
(d) naked drought-dwarfs with one eye on top run for cover

12. How does the wife that great grandfather Bak Sook Goong takes back to China affect Kingston's heritage?
(a) The new wife refuses to blend with Bak Sook Goong's other wives, causing the first divorce in her family.
(b) The new wife's children start the line of Hawaiian-Chinese family members.
(c) The new wife insists on returning to Hawaii with the rest of the family, removing them from China for good.
(d) The new wife has no affect on Kingston's heritage.

13. Why does Kingston grow up thinking her Father hates girls and women?
(a) Kingston has memories of her father cursing about gypsies that swindled him.
(b) Father had a bad experience with his own mother that Kingston doesn't understand.
(c) Father would punish Kingston and her siblings by not speaking to them.
(d) Father wakes up screaming from nightmares at night.

14. How many times does Ah Goong go to Gold Mountain?
(a) never
(b) one time
(c) three times
(d) five times

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens after the bird laughs in "On Mortality Again"?

2. Which is the setting for Kingston's biography of great grandfather Bak Goong in "The Great Grandfather of Sandalwood Mountains"?

3. What does the monk say Tu Tzu-chun has to do to repay him the third time?

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

5. How does great grandfather Bak Goong break the rules of silence while working in Sandalwood Mountain?

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