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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of poem does Ch'u Yuan write before he drowns?
(a) a pourqois poem
(b) a poem of questions with no answers
(c) a haiku
(d) an epic tale told in poetic form

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

3. To what city does the Filipino king send the mandarins to begin their search for the golden needle?
(a) Mexico City
(b) Cabit
(c) Bay of Manila
(d) The City of Gold

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

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

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

7. What are the contents of the Wild Man's bag which is made from a pair of pants?
(a) a gun, ammunition, and pictures of his family in Taiwan
(b) a pot, a sharp piece of tin, and a hand-made club
(c) ead snakes, turtles, armadillos, and alligators
(d) clean clothes and cooking utensils

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

9. In the second telling of the Driving Out in Alaska, what do returning China Men do to get back to their homes and their jobs?
(a) China Men bring back with them battalions of soldiers.
(b) China Men replace white workers who had gone on strike.
(c) China Men fight hand-to-hand battle with the miners.
(d) China Men bargain with the Treadmill Mining Company.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The author of "The Li Sao" is

2. For what does the doctor at the jail treat the Wild Man?

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

4. What reason do the white miners give for the decision to drive out the China Men?

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

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