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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following from "The Ghostmate" shows that the young man is feeling guilty about not returning to his family?
(a) The young husband should have hinted for some leftovers to bring home.
(b) His wife would enjoy hearing about his lucky night.
(c) He asks, "Do you live alone?"
(d) Instead he feeds like a zoo animal.

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

3. What mood does the letter from Kingston's friend, the physicist, reflect about his return visit to their common ancestral village?
(a) despair
(b) indifference
(c) hopeful
(d) hostile

4. In 1884, who is the first Chinese immigrant denied citizenship based on race?
(a) Yue Ting
(b) Chan Young
(c) Wong Kim Ark
(d) Yick Wo

5. Who is Tu Tzu-chun's examiner?
(a) Tu Tzu-chun's father
(b) A Taoist monk
(c) The Buddah
(d) Tu Tzu-chong reincarnated

6. In what year did the U.S. immigration laws discard the Western Hemisphere quota and move to a worldwide quota?
(a) 1950
(b) 1978
(c) 1976
(d) 1948

7. What signed document states that Chinese and Americans could freely travel, trade, and live in either country?
(a) the Nationality Act
(b) the Fourteenth Amendment
(c) the Burlingame Treaty
(d) the queue tax

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

9. Why do the basketmen stop working in autumn?
(a) Men do not have the right clothes
(b) The season is a Chinese holiday
(c) The baskets would fall apart because of age
(d) The winds are too high to work at high elevation

10. Which congressional act in 1882 bans Chinese laborers from entering the U.S. for ten years?
(a) Nationality Act
(b) the revoking of Certificate of Residence
(c) the revised Burlingame Treaty
(d) Chinese Exclusion Act

11. In "The Ghostmate, what imagery does Kingston use when the main character arrives at the house?
(a) The music that accompanies the young man turns dark.
(b) A bolt of lightning illuminates the young man at the door.
(c) The green and black trees twist and turn.
(d) The storm dies when the young man knocks at a gate.

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

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

14. Why would the woman in "The Ghostmate" ask the young man to make her shoes?
(a) The woman wants her visitor to leave right away.
(b) The woman is trying to distract the young man from the storm.
(c) The woman keeps her visitors with her by making them make things for her.
(d) The woman is poor and needs a pair of shoes.

15. 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) a huge redwood tree that Ah Goong helped cut down
(d) cuts on Ah Goong's arms after working in the forest

Short Answer Questions

1. What indicates to the young man in "The Ghostmate" that the woman is "old style"?

2. What is the procedure that the women are using on Tang's feet called?

3. Which anti-Chinese law comes first?

4. What is the last thing the women do to prepare Tang to meet the queen?

5. What reason is given for torturing Tang Ao?

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