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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 takes a cruise boat back to China and performs the traditional funeral rituals at her graveside.
(c) Sao repeatedly demands that his Mother return home to China, and her ghost disappears.
(d) Sao locks her in the dark shed at the grandfathers' old house.

2. How much time passes between the first and the second Driving Out in "Alaska China Men"?
(a) one year
(b) eight days
(c) two years
(d) one month

3. What does Kingston realize about men at Great Uncle Kau's funeral?
(a) Men grow very old before they die.
(b) Men are afraid of death.
(c) Men must carry the casket out of the demon mortuary.
(d) Men have feelings too.

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

5. What details do we learn about the Wild Man when he talks to the translator in his jail cell?
(a) The Wild Man had many friends on the freighter ship and he was confused by their attempts to send him to a foreign country.
(b) The Wild Man is 39-years-old and has seven children in Taiwan.
(c) The Wild Man has been a seaman his entire life.
(d) The Wild Man captured a four-foot alligator.

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

7. How do readers know that the Hundred-Year-Old Man took a job in Hawai'i that paid for passage and offered steady pay, just the same as Kingston's great grandfather?
(a) The old man has only left the island two times in his life to go to other Hawai'ian Islands, same as great grandfather who decides to remain in Hawai'i and not return to China.
(b) The old man sees the King and Prince of the Hawai'ian Islands who offer him work, just as in the great grandfather's story.
(c) The details of the old man's experiences with working to clear land, going to town on pay day, and how he spent his money are the same as in the story told about Kingston's great grandfather.
(d) Both the Hundred-Year-Old Man and great grandfather enjoyed watching the small sugarcane plants grow, therefore the two men must have worked at the same time.

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

9. Why does Sao Elder Brother become known as Mad Sao?
(a) Sao is haunted by his dead mother's ghosts and is seen and heard talking to no one.
(b) Sao returns to Red China to care for his mother before she dies.
(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.

10. What does the Wild Man do when he ventures out of the Green Swamp?
(a) goes to a restaurant
(b) takes fruit and corn from farms
(c) He doesn't ever leave the swamp.
(d) robs farmers for food

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

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

13. What does the Wild Man do on the night he learns that the Border Patrol is sending him back?
(a) He commits suicide by hanging himself with his belt.
(b) He beats the guards with his belt at the first opportunity.
(c) He escapes the jail and is never seen again.
(d) He pretends he is too sick to travel.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which statement best describes Kingston's attitude toward the Communists?

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

3. What does the Hundred-Year-Old man do to rest during his trips to town early in his time in Hawaii?

4. What do Kingston's parents call the Chinese American traditionalists in California?

5. In the first telling of the Driving Out of Alaska, who relocates the China Men?

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