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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Who is Tu Tzu-chun's examiner?
(a) The Buddah
(b) Tu Tzu-chun's father
(c) A Taoist monk
(d) Tu Tzu-chong reincarnated
2. What reason is given for torturing Tang Ao?
(a) to prepare Tang to meet the queen
(b) to teach him a lesson about respecting women
(c) to make him look like a woman
(d) to punish him for coming to the Land of Women
3. Which railroad company building the Transcontinental Railroad does Ah Goong work for?
(a) The Colorado Railroad
(b) the Central Pacific Railroad
(c) the Union Pacific Railroad
(d) The Mississippi Railroad
4. Which of the following is an example of figurative language?
(a) His good leather shoes with the wingtips
(b) man wears our father's two-hundred dollar suit.
(c) We jumped off the fence.
(d) He took our hands out of his pockets.
5. Where in the world is the Women's Land according to ancient scholars?
(a) North America
(b) China
(c) Antarctica
(d) Africa
6. 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) voiding Certificates of Return and requiring Certificate of Residence be shown on demand
(c) identifying free whites as eligible to apply for U.S. citizenship and giving African Aliens eligibility to apply for U.S. citizenshi
(d) defining
7. Which Supreme Court case overturns San Francisco safety ordinances, thereby admitting that California laws are designed to harass Chinese immigrants?
(a) Chae Chan Ping v. The United States
(b) Yick Wo v. Hopkins
(c) Yue Ting v. The United States
(d) The United States v. Mrs. Cue Lim
8. What rule do the "white demons" enforce that is problematic for great grandfather Bak Goong while he is working in the sugar cane fields?
(a) silence
(b) singing
(c) working
(d) counting
9. What is the result of the 1952 Immigration and Nationality Act?
(a) It restricted immigration into the United States.
(b) It allowed thousands of Hong Kong parolees to enter the U.S.
(c) It allowed merchant wives to enter the country.
(d) It distributed 18,000 visas that had not been used.
10. In 1884, who is the first Chinese immigrant denied citizenship based on race?
(a) Yick Wo
(b) Wong Kim Ark
(c) Chan Young
(d) Yue Ting
11. 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 white demons that control the immigrant Chinese men
(d) the men who mined the gold in America
12. When does the story of Tu-Tzu-chin take place?
(a) middle of the 1st century
(b) modern times
(c) middle of the 16th century
(d) middle of the 19th century
13. What is the significance of the Supreme Court ruling in the1898 case, The United States v. Wong Kim Ark?
(a) The decision lifts the restriction on immigration for Chinese.
(b) The decision states that treaty merchants could bring their Chinese wives and children to America to live.
(c) The decision states that San Francisco's safety ordinances are unfair to Chinese.
(d) The decision states that a person born in the U.S. to Chinese parents is an American.
14. Which character from Kingston's folktales in China Men suffers the most?
(a) Tu Tzu-chun
(b) The young man
(c) Bak Goong the great grandfather
(d) Maui the trickster in
15. What does the monk tell Tu Tzu-chun about the task he has in store for Tu?
(a) All that you will see and feel will be illusions.
(b) Hide your broken arms in your sleeves.
(c) Talk, or I'll dash its head against the rocks.
(d) Swallow these three white pills.
Short Answer Questions
1. What purpose does the mother character serve by entering the story at this point?
2. Which best describes the setting of "On Fathers"?
3. How do Ed's partners swindle him out of the business?
4. Which details from the text imply that Father is a successful business man?
5. What is the meaning of the word hastening in the opening lines of "On Fathers"?
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