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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which tax is enforced on Chinese immigrants living in California in order to pay for the extra policing their presence requires?
(a) the laundry tax
(b) the cigar tax
(c) the cubic air ordinance
(d) the police tax

2. What is the Chinaman's hat in "The Great Grandfather of the Sandalwood Mountains"?
(a) the top of Sandalwood Mountain
(b) a hat to protect the Chinese workers
(c) an island
(d) the place in town where Chinese workers gamble

3. What happens after the bird laughs in "On Mortality Again"?
(a) Maui is eaten by Hina.
(b) Maui quickly escapes.
(c) The land falls back into the sea.
(d) Hina wakes up.

4. How does the stranger respond to the children's mistake?
(a) He swats the children away from him as if they were flies.
(b) He gets angry and yells at Mother.
(c) He laughs and tells them they made a mistake.
(d) He is speechless and ignores them altogether.

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

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

7. To what does this simile refer: "Sap ran from its cuts like crying blind eyes"?
(a) bamboo that had to be cut before the rail could be laid
(b) a blind child that cried all the time
(c) cuts on Ah Goong's arms after working in the forest
(d) a huge redwood tree that Ah Goong helped cut down

8. In Honolulu, what does Kingston's friend, the dancer, report about Kingston's ancestral village?
(a) the people are housed and fed
(b) family members had been forced out to build apartments
(c) the people greeted her with a parade
(d) the people in the village are ignorant and lazy

9. What is inside of Hina that holds immortality for humanity?
(a) liver
(b) baby
(c) heart
(d) eyes

10. What is it that Maui instructs all the living creatures on Earth to do in order to accomplish his goal?
(a) read the clouds
(b) walk on water
(c) sing in tune
(d) stay silent

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

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

13. Which best describes the author when she sends money to her cousin in China?
(a) an adult in California
(b) an adult in China
(c) a child in China
(d) a child in California

14. 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 is afraid Maui will hurt him if the seer speaks to the spirits
(c) because the seer is afraid the spirits will punish him
(d) because the seer doesn't hear any spirits in the clouds

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is there a communal dining room at the Chinese village where Kingston's ancestors lived?

2. What action does Maui take that tells the reader where Hina sleeps?

3. What do the two old women do to Tang Ao with the needles?

4. What is the simile "like a knot of ginger root" referring to?

5. How many years, according to Ah Goong, does it take to complete the railroad?

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