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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Why is this Maui's last deed?
(a) Maui drowns during his attempted escape.
(b) Hina closes Maui up inside her and he dies there.
(c) Hina removes Maui and eats him alive.
(d) Maui is reborn to Hina as a different demigod.

4. 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

5. Why does Kingston think that Stockton is a special place to live?
(a) Flocks of hoboes were always around the tracks, keeping the city entertaining.
(b) Kingston's grandfathers worked on the tracks in Stockton where Kingston and her family live.
(c) Stockton, CA, is the only city with three intersecting railroads.
(d) Kingston could ride the trains anytime she wanted.

6. What is happening on the East Coast at the same time as the Central Pacific is forging through the Sierra Nevada Mountains in the West?
(a) The French and Indian War
(b) The U.S. Civil War
(c) World War I
(d) The Revolutionary War

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

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

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

10. Who is Chan Moong Gut in "The Great Grandfather of the Sandalwood Mountains"?
(a) a magical character in Bak Goong's tall tales
(b) the young man who left his village for the Imperial Examinations
(c) the other great grandfather that worked in the Sandalwood Mountains
(d) the ghost of Bak Goong's dead father

11. What does Ah Goong, BaBa's father, do with BaBa that horrifies the family?
(a) Ah Goong sang girl songs to BaBa.
(b) Ah Goong climbed high up to a second floor window to watch BaBa be born.
(c) Ah Goong trades BaBa for a neighbor's girl baby.
(d) Ah Goong jumped on BaBa's stomach for hours.

12. What does the monk say Tu Tzu-chun has to do to repay him the third time?
(a) murder his wife
(b) work for him on an important difficult task
(c) spend another fortune
(d) spend his fortune on others

13. What indicates to the young man in "The Ghostmate" that the woman is "old style"?
(a) the food is just the right temperature
(b) she serves him a meal
(c) he does not like the clothing she left him
(d) long combs and traditional eye make-up

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

15. Who were the Gold Mountain Sojourners?
(a) the teachers who graded papers every night for the Chinese children
(b) the men who went to America and then returned to China
(c) the men who mined the gold in America
(d) the white demons that control the immigrant Chinese men

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What rule do the "white demons" enforce that is problematic for great grandfather Bak Goong while he is working in the sugar cane fields?

3. Which tax is enforced on Chinese immigrants living in California in order to pay for the extra policing their presence requires?

4. What two actions result from the Scott Act of 1888?

5. What is the consequence of Tu Tzu-chun failing the monk's test?

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