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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What purpose does the mother character serve by entering the story at this point?
(a) She provides an adult female presence to balance the male presence of the stranger.
(b) She moves the plot along and explains how the children could make such a mistake.
(c) She becomes the focus of the children so that they stop focusing on the stranger.
(d) She introduces a conflict that the children have to solve.

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

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

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

5. What metaphor does Tang use to compare his bandages hanging to dry?
(a) like a moth's wings
(b) streamers that drooped and draped wall to wall
(c) like underwear
(d) gathered his toes over and under another

6. Who is the author speaking or writing to in the beginning of "The Father from China"?
(a) her siblings
(b) her readers
(c) her father
(d) her mother

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 describes the disgusting way that the young man eats.
(c) Kingston says he feeds like an aristocrat.
(d) Kingston says that the young man hears a deer cry.

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

9. How does Father acknowledge that he recognizes the children?
(a) He salutes them with one finger touching his hat.
(b) He picks up the pace of his walk to a jog.
(c) He turned around and walked the other direction.
(d) He waves his hands and smiles broadly.

10. What did the Displaced Persons Act passed in 1948 offer Chinese immigrants?
(a) Special Citizenship Judges are appointed to get individual private bills passed for a price.
(b) The act allows Chinese people to bring their close family members to the U.S.
(c) Homes for Chinese immigrants are given to those who are homeles
(d) between 1948-1954, ethnic Chinese could apply for citizenship.

11. What is the simile "like a knot of ginger root" referring to?
(a) the veins in Tang's broken feet
(b) the shape of Tang's ears
(c) Tang's arthritic hands
(d) Tang's broken and stacked toes

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What condition does the monk set on what Tu Tzu-chun can do during his illusions?

2. Which best describes the setting of "On Fathers"?

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

4. Who were the Gold Mountain Sojourners?

5. What was used first to keep the holes open in Tang Ao's earlobes?

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