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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Kingston's parents call the Chinese American traditionalists in California?
(a) demon workers
(b) superstitious, backward peasants
(c) wheat germ
(d) sky chickens

2. 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 have secret knowledge of gold in the mountains.
(c) The mandarins have a Chinese in chains.
(d) The mandarins ride in ivory and gold chairs.

3. What do people in Alaska do to track events in their lives and their community?
(a) write in diaries
(b) hire a town crier
(c) post bulletins around towns
(d) produce a weekly newspaper

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

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

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

7. 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 say he is too fat.
(d) The doctors find ink in his blood.

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

9. In the first telling of the Driving Out of Alaska, who relocates the China Men?
(a) Indians in war canoes
(b) Chinese scab laborers
(c) White demons with guns and tools
(d) Indians on a schooner

10. What two goals does Father finally reach by the end of "The American Father"?
(a) He owns his own house and his own business.
(b) His children go to private school and he owns his own house.
(c) He has the biggest garden in Stockton and he owns his own business.
(d) His clothes fit again and mother is finally happy.

11. What does Kingston notice about the Wild Man as shown in the photos of his capture appearing in the newspaper?
(a) The Wild Man was neat and clean and did not act wild or fight his captors.
(b) The Wild Man was crying as his captors led him out of the swamp.
(c) The Wild Man's hair and beard were extremely long, because he was unable to groom himself in the swamp.
(d) The men in cowboy hats that escorted him out of the swamp appeared to have given quite a fight against the Wild Man.

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

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

14. 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) You are a traitor.
(c) Let me hear you speak English.
(d) You are lucky.

15. 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 sees a figure hunched over a fire.
(d) The officer calls out to the Wild Man who responds in a language the officer cannot understand.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Wild Man do when he ventures out of the Green Swamp?

2. In the second telling of the Driving Out in Alaska, what do returning China Men do to get back to their homes and their jobs?

3. After Captain Carroll rescues the China Men from being adrift in the sea, where do the China Men ask the Captain to take them?

4. How old is Lo Bun Sun when he returns to China and gets married?

5. How does Kingston's brother describe the Navy?

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