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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What happens that begins Father's most dismal time in "The American Father"?
(a) The children get out of control, and Father beats his daughter with a hangar.
(b) MaMa has an accident at the cannery and dies.
(c) MaMa shames him into taking a low-wage laborer job.
(d) The Gambling house is raided and closed permanently.

3. What does Lo Bun Sun call the two shelters he builds on the island?
(a) caves
(b) mansions
(c) castles
(d) shelters

4. What amount of pay is given to the Chinese workers in Hawaii for working in the cane fields?
(a) Four dollars and thirty cents
(b) Four dollars a month
(c) Four dollars a week
(d) One dollar a week

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

6. 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.

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

8. In what year is the birthday party for the 106-year-old man held in Hawaii?
(a) 1893
(b) 1969
(c) 1885
(d) 1983

9. What does Kingston hear from her schoolmates that makes her long to be normal?
(a) Kingston must walk home with her huge uncle everyday.
(b) The other children speak of family members saying, "I love you."
(c) Children speak of being spanked and being kissed goodnight
(d) Kingston's schoolmates make fun of her clothes.

10. 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.

11. What animal does Lo Bun Sun make his pet and what does he teach it to do?
(a) Lo makes a goat his pet and he teaches the goat to attack its predators.
(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 cat from the ship his pet and he teaches it to come when called.
(d) Lo makes the dog that he rescued from the ship his pet and he teaches it to retrieve the birds Lo shoots.

12. 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 blames Ch'u Yuan for losing the war against Ch'in.
(c) Ch'u Yuan seeks the opinion of fishermen and other non-royals.
(d) The King asks Ch'u Yuan to spread his philosophy to the outer world.

13. 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 clothes fit again and mother is finally happy.
(c) His children go to private school and he owns his own house.
(d) He has the biggest garden in Stockton and he owns his own business.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What food product is Uncle Bun obsessed with when the reader first meets him?

2. What month is stated as the date for both stories of the Driving Out in Alaska?

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

4. Which act shows that the mandarins are confident that they will find gold?

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

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