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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What effects do the comic books have on Kingston and her Chinese American family?
(a) Comic books reinforce the stereotype of the Chinese American or Oriental.
(b) The stories that were unfit for children must have been worse than guts hanging out.
(c) Comic books gave Chinese Americans true and accurate information about the Vietnam War.
(d) Comic books distract the children from the horrors of war by showing Chop Chop.

3. What month is stated as the date for both stories of the Driving Out in Alaska?
(a) April
(b) June
(c) January
(d) July

4. How does Sing Kay Ng get his name?
(a) Lo Bun Sun names him Sing Kay Ng because it means fleeing man.
(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 the man has a limp.

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

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

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

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

9. 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 captured a four-foot alligator.
(c) The Wild Man is 39-years-old and has seven children in Taiwan.
(d) The Wild Man has been a seaman his entire life.

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

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

12. When the fish-and-game wardens and sheriff deputies use dogs to search for the Wild Man, why is their search so short?
(a) The officers are getting bitten by mosquitoes
(b) The dogs find no scent to follow.
(c) The searchers are convinced that no one could live in the swamp.
(d) The officers are sure the sightings are a mass hallucination.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Ch'u Yuan looking for as he seeks another like him in the world?

2. Where do the mandarins seeking gold land their ship?

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

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

5. How much time passes between the first and the second Driving Out in "Alaska China Men"?

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