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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which best describes the setting of "On Fathers"?
(a) a street in Stockton, CA
(b) downtown
(c) a farm in rural area
(d) the author's yard

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

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

4. What did the Displaced Persons Act passed in 1948 offer Chinese immigrants?
(a) Homes for Chinese immigrants are given to those who are homeles
(b) The act allows Chinese people to bring their close family members to the U.S.
(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.

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

6. What is the last thing the women do to prepare Tang to meet the queen?
(a) force Tang to wash his used bandages
(b) powder Tang's face and put makeup on him
(c) pierce Tang's ears
(d) feed Tang chicken wings to make his hair shine

7. How does the wife that great grandfather Bak Sook Goong takes back to China affect Kingston's heritage?
(a) The new wife's children start the line of Hawaiian-Chinese family members.
(b) The new wife has no affect on Kingston's heritage.
(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 refuses to blend with Bak Sook Goong's other wives, causing the first divorce in her family.

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

9. 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 is speechless and ignores them altogether.
(c) He gets angry and yells at Mother.
(d) He laughs and tells them they made a mistake.

10. What two actions result from the Scott Act of 1888?
(a) suspending the Burlingame Treaty for 20 years and making Chinese men cut off their ponytails
(b) defining
(c) voiding Certificates of Return and requiring Certificate of Residence be shown on demand
(d) identifying free whites as eligible to apply for U.S. citizenship and giving African Aliens eligibility to apply for U.S. citizenshi

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

12. 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.

13. From what point of view is "On Fathers" written?
(a) third--person omniscient
(b) third-person limited
(c) first-person observer
(d) first-person narrative

14. What does Ah Po show BaBa's brothers to explain that he is different from them?
(a) BaBa was the largest boy born so far in the family.
(b) BaBa's skinny, frail body had hands made for holding pens.
(c) BaBa's head was shaped differently than theirs.
(d) BaBa's hair was a different color than theirs.

15. How does the woman in "The Ghostmate" get her visitors to stay longer than they intend to?
(a) She convinces the young man that she is better for him than his wife.
(b) She brings the young man the very fruits, the very poem, the very game he likes best.
(c) She tells the young man the long story of her tragic life.
(d) She locks the young man in the dungeon.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Which best describes the genre of these two chapters: "The Ghostmate" and "The Father From America"?

4. In what year did the U.S. immigration laws discard the Western Hemisphere quota and move to a worldwide quota?

5. Which of the following is an example of a simile used in "The Ghostmate"?

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