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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. 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 captured a four-foot alligator.
(d) The Wild Man has been a seaman his entire life.

5. What does it finally take to capture the Wild Man of the Green Swamp?
(a) tracking dogs and hunters with guns
(b) a sophisticated trap set in the swamp
(c) an air and land search by a posse
(d) a farmer hold him at gunpoint until the authorities arrive

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

7. How does Sao rid himself of his mother's ghost?
(a) Sao locks her in the dark shed at the grandfathers' old house.
(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 takes a cruise boat back to China and performs the traditional funeral rituals at her graveside.

8. How does Kingston's Father avoid the draft?
(a) The doctors find ink in his blood.
(b) The doctors say he is too fat.
(c) The doctors say Father was too skinny.
(d) The Chinese American landlord pulls strings to get Father released.

9. What does Say Goong call a "sky chicken"?
(a) a rooster
(b) a fly
(c) a toad
(d) a horse

10. 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 goes mad and becomes paranoid, accusing Father of stealing his money.
(c) Sao is haunted by his dead mother's ghosts and is seen and heard talking to no one.
(d) Sao is the only man in the family to be Americanized.

11. 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) Children speak of being spanked and being kissed goodnight
(c) Kingston's schoolmates make fun of her clothes.
(d) The other children speak of family members saying, "I love you."

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

13. How does Sing Kay Ng get his name?
(a) Lo Bun Sun names him Sing Kay Ng because the man has a limp.
(b) Sing Kay Ng makes up his own name after he learns Chinese from Lo Bun Sun.
(c) Sing Kay Ng gets his Chinese name from his Chinese mother.
(d) Lo Bun Sun names him Sing Kay Ng because it means fleeing man.

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

15. What does the blind fortune teller predict will happen to Kingston's San Francisco Aunt over her lifetime?
(a) Aunt will gain and lose fortunes many times.
(b) Aunt will marry three times.
(c) Aunt will meet her husband in Hong Kong.
(d) Aunt will own a shoe store throughout her life.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Kingston confused about the story of the gold needle in a mountain in the Philippines?

2. How long does the Wild Man elude capture in the Green Swamp?

3. Where else on the globe do the Chinese look for gold, according to the Filipino scholar in "On Listening"?

4. What kind of poem does Ch'u Yuan write before he drowns?

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

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