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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. For whom do the Juneau citizens hold the largest funeral Alaska ever sees?
(a) President of the Treadwell Mining Company
(b) Citizenship Judge
(c) Captain Carroll
(d) China Joe

3. What happens in Hawaii that prevents the Hundred-Year-Old Man from going to town in 1893?
(a) The American revolution against Queen Lili'uokalani
(b) The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor
(c) The American Civil War
(d) The Communist Revolution in China

4. Who travels to Alaska during the Driving Out to help end the violence?
(a) The Calvary
(b) President of the United States
(c) Other company strikers from around the state
(d) Alaska's governor

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

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

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

8. How many China Men make up the Chinese population in Alaska?
(a) 100
(b) 700
(c) 1,000
(d) 150

9. What food product is Uncle Bun obsessed with when the reader first meets him?
(a) coconuts
(b) milk
(c) eggs
(d) wheat germ

10. 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

11. Where else on the globe do the Chinese look for gold, according to the Filipino scholar in "On Listening"?
(a) Mexico
(b) China
(c) Spain
(d) Philippines

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was Ch'u Yuan banished from the Center and from the Royal Court?

2. What does Kingston hear from her schoolmates that makes her long to be normal?

3. What is Ch'u Yuan looking for as he seeks another like him in the world?

4. To what city does the Filipino king send the mandarins to begin their search for the golden needle?

5. What does the blind fortune teller predict will happen to Kingston's San Francisco Aunt over her lifetime?

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