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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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.

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

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

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

7. From whom do MaMa and Father have to keep their savings a secret?
(a) their six children
(b) the owner of the Gambling House
(c) their neighbors in Stockton
(d) MaMa's sister living in San Francisco

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

9. What does Uncle Bun accuse Father of doing?
(a) wasting money
(b) working too hard
(c) stealing his money
(d) poisoning his food

10. After Captain Carroll rescues the China Men from being adrift in the sea, where do the China Men ask the Captain to take them?
(a) California
(b) Douglas Island
(c) China
(d) Cuba

11. 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 takes a cruise boat back to China and performs the traditional funeral rituals at her graveside.
(c) Sao doesn't ever rid himself of the criticizing ghost and he goes mad, becoming known as Mad Sao.
(d) Sao repeatedly demands that his Mother return home to China, and her ghost disappears.

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

13. In the first telling of the Driving Out of Alaska, who relocates the China Men?
(a) Indians in war canoes
(b) Indians on a schooner
(c) Chinese scab laborers
(d) White demons with guns and tools

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What two goals does Father finally reach by the end of "The American Father"?

2. What are the contents of the Wild Man's bag which is made from a pair of pants?

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

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

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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