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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What drives the Wild Man to hysterics while he is in the jail?
(a) severe homesickness
(b) being locked up for three days straight
(c) not being able to speak with the authorities
(d) The Border Patrol is sending him back.

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

3. How is brother, returning from Vietnam, greeted when he walks from the bus station to his parents' home in Stockton?
(a) There is a huge surprise party held in his honor.
(b) No one is home.
(c) A party is just ending.
(d) His mother forces him to eat so he will gain some weight.

4. 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) The King asks Ch'u Yuan to spread his philosophy to the outer world.
(d) Ch'u Yuan seeks the opinion of fishermen and other non-royals.

5. What does Lo Sun Bun's father tell him before Lo heads out to sea?
(a) I disown you as my son.
(b) Please return home soon.
(c) I wish you good and safe travel my son.
(d) Heaven will not bless you.

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

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

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

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

10. What does the Hundred-Year-Old man do to rest during his trips to town early in his time in Hawaii?
(a) gambles
(b) smokes opium
(c) smokes cigars
(d) spends money on women

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

12. Why is Kingston confused about the story of the gold needle in a mountain in the Philippines?
(a) Kingston doesn't hear the Filipino clearly, because others were speaking over him.
(b) Kingston is confused because she thought the Chinese only went to Hawai'i and California.
(c) Kingston doesn't know whether the Filipino king tricked the mandarins or not.
(d) Kingston cannot understand the scholar's accent.

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

14. What reason do the white miners give for the decision to drive out the China Men?
(a) for fighting with the Indians
(b) for getting richer by working harder
(c) for paying Citizenship Judges to become citizens
(d) for stoning a woman in Juneau

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

Short Answer Questions

1. From whom do MaMa and Father have to keep their savings a secret?

2. What effects do the comic books have on Kingston and her Chinese American family?

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

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

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

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