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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What reason is given for torturing Tang Ao?
(a) to prepare Tang to meet the queen
(b) to punish him for coming to the Land of Women
(c) to teach him a lesson about respecting women
(d) to make him look like a woman

2. What is the procedure that the women are using on Tang's feet called?
(a) swaddling
(b) footbinding
(c) streaming
(d) bandaging

3. What action does Maui take that tells the reader where Hina sleeps?
(a) Maui brought fire to Earth.
(b) Maui dives into the ocean.
(c) Maui pulled the land up out of the ocean.
(d) Maui pushes the sky higher.

4. Which two islands does Kingston suggest her father had gone to before entering America?
(a) Angel Island and Cuba
(b) Angel Island and Ellis Island
(c) Ellis Island and Cuba
(d) Hawaii and Cuba

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

6. The seer does not disturb the spirits in the clouds in "On Mortality Again" __________________________.
(a) because the seer doesn't want to draw the attention of the spirits to Maui's trick
(b) because the seer doesn't hear any spirits in the clouds
(c) because the seer is afraid Maui will hurt him if the seer speaks to the spirits
(d) because the seer is afraid the spirits will punish him

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

8. What does a Chinese bride do for three nights before she marries?
(a) She prepares three thousand wedding cakes.
(b) She sits behind bed curtains to sing and weep.
(c) She listens to the prayers of women in the village.
(d) She hides from her groom-to-be and his family.

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

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

11. What is supposedly the cause of the "Mongolian spot" on some Chinese babies?
(a) Tu Tzu-chun is kicked in the rear to get him through the birth canal.
(b) The Mongolian spot indicates the child has a disease.
(c) The Mongolian spot is a bruise left by the doctor during birth of Chinese babies.
(d) The Mongolian spot is the mark of an immortal.

12. What was used first to keep the holes open in Tang Ao's earlobes?
(a) jade studs
(b) sticks of straw
(c) gold loops
(d) silk threads

13. Why does the young man enter the house of the young widow?
(a) He is being chased by dogs.
(b) He is selling wares door-to-door
(c) He is lonely and seeks companionship.
(d) He seeks shelter from a storm along the mountain path.

14. What do the women do to help stir the cool female winds inside Tang's body?
(a) unwrap the bindings from Tang's feet
(b) giveTang tea with white chrysanthemums
(c) make Tang sit in the rain and wind
(d) make Tang wash the bandages used to bind his feet

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who were the Gold Mountain Sojourners?

2. To what does the narrator in "The Ghostmate" compare the woman's hair?

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

4. In "The Ghostmate," what does the young man see along the path that comforts him a little?

5. How does the stranger respond to the children's mistake?

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