View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Hundred-Year-Old man do to rest during his trips to town early in his time in Hawaii?
(a) spends money on women
(b) smokes cigars
(c) gambles
(d) smokes opium

2. What does Lo Sun Bun's father tell him before Lo heads out to sea?
(a) I wish you good and safe travel my son.
(b) Please return home soon.
(c) Heaven will not bless you.
(d) I disown you as my son.

3. What feature of the Wild Man that Kingston saw as a child is distinctly different from the Wild Man caught in 1975?
(a) The Wild Man Kingston saw was a black man.
(b) The Wild Man Kingston saw was naked.
(c) The Wild Man Kingston saw was dirty.
(d) The Wild Man Kingston saw was never captured.

4. In addition to self-defense, what is the most influential element in the rule of law in Alaska in 1885?
(a) miner's meetings
(b) personal diaries of government officials
(c) China Men meetings
(d) newspapers and flyers

5. Why does Sao Elder Brother become known as Mad Sao?
(a) Sao is the only man in the family to be Americanized.
(b) Sao is haunted by his dead mother's ghosts and is seen and heard talking to no one.
(c) Sao returns to Red China to care for his mother before she dies.
(d) Sao goes mad and becomes paranoid, accusing Father of stealing his money.

6. How does Sing Kay Ng get his name?
(a) Lo Bun Sun names him Sing Kay Ng because the man has a limp.
(b) Sing Kay Ng makes up his own name after he learns Chinese from Lo Bun Sun.
(c) Lo Bun Sun names him Sing Kay Ng because it means fleeing man.
(d) Sing Kay Ng gets his Chinese name from his Chinese mother.

7. What does Kingston realize about men at Great Uncle Kau's funeral?
(a) Men are afraid of death.
(b) Men have feelings too.
(c) Men must carry the casket out of the demon mortuary.
(d) Men grow very old before they die.

8. When the fish-and-game wardens and sheriff deputies use dogs to search for the Wild Man, why is their search so short?
(a) The searchers are convinced that no one could live in the swamp.
(b) The officers are getting bitten by mosquitoes
(c) The dogs find no scent to follow.
(d) The officers are sure the sightings are a mass hallucination.

9. What does the Hundred-Year-Old Man say he carried with him from China to Hawai'i?
(a) pigs in cages and chives and onions growing in cans
(b) extra water to keep his plants alive
(c) noodles, ginger, and dried fruit
(d) mementos from China, such a photos of his family

10. How old is Lo Bun Sun when he returns to China and gets married?
(a) fifty-years-old
(b) sixty-years-old
(c) forty-five-years-old
(d) one-hundred-years-old

11. How is brother, returning from Vietnam, greeted when he walks from the bus station to his parents' home in Stockton?
(a) No one is home.
(b) His mother forces him to eat so he will gain some weight.
(c) There is a huge surprise party held in his honor.
(d) A party is just ending.

12. What kind of business does Father buy?
(a) a laundry
(b) a gambling house
(c) a barbershop
(d) a tobacco shop

13. How were the Indians in Alaska treated by the "gold seeking" miners?
(a) They are welcomed as extra labor.
(b) Some are tortured and murdered in public.
(c) They are kept as slaves by white demons.
(d) They are driven out at gunpoint.

14. Which act shows that the mandarins are confident that they will find gold?
(a) The Chinese workers have babies and start families here.
(b) The mandarins sail further and further inland.
(c) The mandarins agree to build roads and railroads for the Filipino king.
(d) The mandarins ask for more ships to carry all the gold.

15. How does Kingston refer to "The Adventures of Lo Bun Sun," based on her childhood perspective?
(a) Kingston says that it was very hard to sit through MaMa's reading of this book.
(b) Kingston says that
(c) Kingston says that this story was reminiscent of the China Men she saw leaving for Gold Mountain.
(d) Kingston says this is one of the more boring books her mother read to her.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Say Goong call a "sky chicken"?

2. From whom do MaMa and Father have to keep their savings a secret?

3. How does Kingston's Father avoid the draft?

4. What does Lo Bun Sun call the two shelters he builds on the island?

5. What do people in Alaska do to track events in their lives and their community?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 790 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample