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

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

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

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

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

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

7. The author of "The Li Sao" is
(a) Uncle Kau Goong
(b) Ch'u Yuan, China's earliest known poet
(c) The Goddess of the Hsiang River
(d) Kingston, when she was a teenager

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

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

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

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

12. 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 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.
(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 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.
(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.

13. Which act shows that the mandarins are confident that they will find gold?
(a) The mandarins ask for more ships to carry all the gold.
(b) The mandarins sail further and further inland.
(c) The mandarins agree to build roads and railroads for the Filipino king.
(d) The Chinese workers have babies and start families here.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When the fish-and-game wardens and sheriff deputies use dogs to search for the Wild Man, why is their search so short?

2. What does Ch'u Yuan decide to do once he accepts that he cannot return home?

3. In addition to self-defense, what is the most influential element in the rule of law in Alaska in 1885?

4. To what city does the Filipino king send the mandarins to begin their search for the golden needle?

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

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