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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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

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

3. When does the story of Tu-Tzu-chin take place?
(a) modern times
(b) middle of the 16th century
(c) middle of the 1st century
(d) middle of the 19th century

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

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

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

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

8. To what does the narrator in "The Ghostmate" compare the woman's hair?
(a) lumps of peacocks
(b) long black tail alive
(c) a light-colored dress
(d) follows her retreating back

9. Which Supreme Court case overturns San Francisco safety ordinances, thereby admitting that California laws are designed to harass Chinese immigrants?
(a) Yue Ting v. The United States
(b) The United States v. Mrs. Cue Lim
(c) Yick Wo v. Hopkins
(d) Chae Chan Ping v. The United States

10. In "The Ghostmate," what does the young man see along the path that comforts him a little?
(a) red paper
(b) peacocks
(c) charging dogs
(d) rabbits

11. 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 prepares three thousand wedding cakes.
(d) She listens to the prayers of women in the village.

12. How long had Ed been away from China before he and MaMa were reunited in New York City?
(a) 10 years
(b) 15 years
(c) 2 years
(d) 5 years

13. 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) identifying free whites as eligible to apply for U.S. citizenship and giving African Aliens eligibility to apply for U.S. citizenshi
(d) voiding Certificates of Return and requiring Certificate of Residence be shown on demand

14. 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) long combs and traditional eye make-up
(d) he does not like the clothing she left him

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the monk say Tu Tzu-chun has to do to repay him the third time?

2. Where does Hina of the night sleep?

3. Who is Guan Goong?

4. What part of Tang Ao's wardrobe is shaped like a bridge?

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

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