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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does it finally take to capture the Wild Man of the Green Swamp?
(a) a sophisticated trap set in the swamp
(b) tracking dogs and hunters with guns
(c) an air and land search by a posse
(d) a farmer hold him at gunpoint until the authorities arrive

2. How does Sao rid himself of his mother's ghost?
(a) Sao repeatedly demands that his Mother return home to China, and her ghost disappears.
(b) Sao locks her in the dark shed at the grandfathers' old house.
(c) Sao takes a cruise boat back to China and performs the traditional funeral rituals at her graveside.
(d) Sao doesn't ever rid himself of the criticizing ghost and he goes mad, becoming known as Mad Sao.

3. What effects do the comic books have on Kingston and her Chinese American family?
(a) Comic books gave Chinese Americans true and accurate information about the Vietnam War.
(b) The stories that were unfit for children must have been worse than guts hanging out.
(c) Comic books reinforce the stereotype of the Chinese American or Oriental.
(d) Comic books distract the children from the horrors of war by showing Chop Chop.

4. Why does Sao Elder Brother become known as Mad Sao?
(a) Sao goes mad and becomes paranoid, accusing Father of stealing his money.
(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 is the only man in the family to be Americanized.

5. The author of "The Li Sao" is
(a) Kingston, when she was a teenager
(b) Uncle Kau Goong
(c) Ch'u Yuan, China's earliest known poet
(d) The Goddess of the Hsiang River

6. What are the contents of the Wild Man's bag which is made from a pair of pants?
(a) clean clothes and cooking utensils
(b) a gun, ammunition, and pictures of his family in Taiwan
(c) ead snakes, turtles, armadillos, and alligators
(d) a pot, a sharp piece of tin, and a hand-made club

7. How does the game officer that first spots the Wild Man in the Green Swamp know that what he sees is not a bear?
(a) The Wild Man drags a burlap bag behind him.
(b) The Wild Man stands up and confronts the officer.
(c) The officer calls out to the Wild Man who responds in a language the officer cannot understand.
(d) The officer sees a figure hunched over a fire.

8. What tradition does Mad Sao perform at his mother's graveside that the Kingston family does not do after Uncle Kau's funeral?
(a) pours liquor into the groun
(b) makes a fire and jump over it
(c) tosses fake money around
(d) carries a casket with the body in it

9. What does Uncle Bun accuse Father of doing?
(a) working too hard
(b) poisoning his food
(c) stealing his money
(d) wasting money

10. What animal does Lo Bun Sun make his pet and what does he teach it to do?
(a) Lo makes the cat from the ship his pet and he teaches it to come when called.
(b) Lo makes a parrot his pet and he teaches it how to speak so that Lo can hear a human voice.
(c) Lo makes the dog that he rescued from the ship his pet and he teaches it to retrieve the birds Lo shoots.
(d) Lo makes a goat his pet and he teaches the goat to attack its predators.

11. What word best describes the meaning of Ch'u Yuan's name?
(a) next king
(b) righteous
(c) dirty crowd
(d) peace

12. How long does the Wild Man elude capture in the Green Swamp?
(a) one month
(b) three months
(c) eight months
(d) one year

13. How does Kingston's Father avoid the draft?
(a) The doctors say Father was too skinny.
(b) The Chinese American landlord pulls strings to get Father released.
(c) The doctors find ink in his blood.
(d) The doctors say he is too fat.

14. Why was Ch'u Yuan banished from the Center and from the Royal Court?
(a) Ch'u Yuan is a spy for the Ch'in army.
(b) The King asks Ch'u Yuan to spread his philosophy to the outer world.
(c) Ch'u Yuan seeks the opinion of fishermen and other non-royals.
(d) The King blames Ch'u Yuan for losing the war against Ch'in.

15. What does the Wild Man do on the night he learns that the Border Patrol is sending him back?
(a) He escapes the jail and is never seen again.
(b) He beats the guards with his belt at the first opportunity.
(c) He pretends he is too sick to travel.
(d) He commits suicide by hanging himself with his belt.

Short Answer Questions

1. What drives the Wild Man to hysterics while he is in the jail?

2. Where do the mandarins seeking gold land their ship?

3. What response does Kingston's oldest brother get from the Filipino and other island natives when he says he is a Chinese American?

4. What symbolizes to the Filipino king that the mandarin is of a higher social class than other Chinese already living there?

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

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