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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How might Kingston's father's life have been different had he passed the Imperial Examinations with honors?
(a) Kingston's father may have traveled the world in luxury.
(b) Kingston's father may have married an American woman.
(c) Kingston's father may not have had to work a single day in his life.
(d) Kingston's father may not have come to Gold Mountain.

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

5. What was used first to keep the holes open in Tang Ao's earlobes?
(a) jade studs
(b) sticks of straw
(c) gold loops
(d) silk threads

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

7. Which of the following is an example of a simile used in "The Ghostmate"?
(a) Steam rises as if a mirage of food floated on the table.
(b) The orange of the firelight suffuses the prorcelain.
(c) The bowls of soup are bottomless.
(d) He gorges; he indulges his appetite.

8. What is the last thing the women do to prepare Tang to meet the queen?
(a) powder Tang's face and put makeup on him
(b) force Tang to wash his used bandages
(c) feed Tang chicken wings to make his hair shine
(d) pierce Tang's ears

9. Why does Kingston grow up thinking her Father hates girls and women?
(a) Father would punish Kingston and her siblings by not speaking to them.
(b) Kingston has memories of her father cursing about gypsies that swindled him.
(c) Father had a bad experience with his own mother that Kingston doesn't understand.
(d) Father wakes up screaming from nightmares at night.

10. How many years, according to Ah Goong, does it take to complete the railroad?
(a) six years
(b) twenty years
(c) ten years
(d) two years

11. What action does Maui take that tells the reader where Hina sleeps?
(a) Maui brought fire to Earth.
(b) Maui pulled the land up out of the ocean.
(c) Maui dives into the ocean.
(d) Maui pushes the sky higher.

12. What does Ah Goong say about working in the tunnels?
(a) Mountains of dirt walked out of the tunnel.
(b) The sound of hammers only stop at night.
(c) Day becomes night.
(d) Time and space stop inside the tunnel.

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

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

15. Who is Guan Goong?
(a) a hero from China's revolution
(b) an actor in a play in Sacramento
(c) one of Kingston's grandfathers
(d) the God of War and Literature

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Tu Tzu-chun's examiner?

2. What reason is given for torturing Tang Ao?

3. Where do Ed and MaMa go after Ed is ousted from the laundry business?

4. What culture is the character Maui from in "On Mortality Again"?

5. In "The Ghostmate," what does the young man see along the path that comforts him a little?

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