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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 dirty.
(b) The Wild Man Kingston saw was never captured.
(c) The Wild Man Kingston saw was naked.
(d) The Wild Man Kingston saw was a black man.

2. Which of the following is not something Sao does at his mother's grave?
(a) lights incense set in pails of sand
(b) pours wine into the earth
(c) lights on fire paper replicas of money
(d) heaps food and presents on her grave

3. 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) Heaven will not bless you.
(c) Please return home soon.
(d) I disown you as my son.

4. To what does Kingston refer with the metaphor "the living night"?
(a) a pile of manure
(b) the dark shed
(c) a black horse
(d) a stagecoach

5. What does Say Goong call a "sky chicken"?
(a) a horse
(b) a fly
(c) a toad
(d) a rooster

6. What symbolizes to the Filipino king that the mandarin is of a higher social class than other Chinese already living there?
(a) The mandarin ships are seaworthy.
(b) The mandarins ride in ivory and gold chairs.
(c) The mandarins have secret knowledge of gold in the mountains.
(d) The mandarins have a Chinese in chains.

7. What is Ch'u Yuan looking for as he seeks another like him in the world?
(a) a lost prince trying to spread the word of peace
(b) a phoenix dispossessed
(c) an arrogant, all-knowing citizen
(d) an uncorrupted human being

8. What response does Kingston's oldest brother get from the Filipino and other island natives when he says he is a Chinese American?
(a) You'll never survive here.
(b) Let me hear you speak English.
(c) You are a traitor.
(d) You are lucky.

9. 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 goat his pet and he teaches the goat to attack its predators.
(c) Lo makes a parrot his pet and he teaches it how to speak so that Lo can hear a human voice.
(d) Lo makes the dog that he rescued from the ship his pet and he teaches it to retrieve the birds Lo shoots.

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

11. After Captain Carroll rescues the China Men from being adrift in the sea, where do the China Men ask the Captain to take them?
(a) Douglas Island
(b) Cuba
(c) California
(d) China

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

13. How does Sao rid himself of his mother's ghost?
(a) Sao doesn't ever rid himself of the criticizing ghost and he goes mad, becoming known as Mad Sao.
(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 repeatedly demands that his Mother return home to China, and her ghost disappears.

14. What does Ch'u Yuan decide to do once he accepts that he cannot return home?
(a) Ch'u Yuan tells the river all of his tales.
(b) Ch'u Yuan prays for with the corrupt world.
(c) Ch'u Yuan starts the tradition of wrapping rice in leaves once every year
(d) Ch'u Yuan jumps in the river and drowns.

15. 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 officers are sure the sightings are a mass hallucination.
(d) The dogs find no scent to follow.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kingston realize about men at Great Uncle Kau's funeral?

2. What details do we learn about the Wild Man when he talks to the translator in his jail cell?

3. What does Kingston notice about the Wild Man as shown in the photos of his capture appearing in the newspaper?

4. The author of "The Li Sao" is

5. What happens in Hawaii that prevents the Hundred-Year-Old Man from going to town in 1893?

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