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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What food product is Uncle Bun obsessed with when the reader first meets him?
(a) milk
(b) eggs
(c) wheat germ
(d) coconuts
2. How were the Indians in Alaska treated by the "gold seeking" miners?
(a) They are driven out at gunpoint.
(b) They are kept as slaves by white demons.
(c) They are welcomed as extra labor.
(d) Some are tortured and murdered in public.
3. What does Kingston realize about men at Great Uncle Kau's funeral?
(a) Men must carry the casket out of the demon mortuary.
(b) Men grow very old before they die.
(c) Men are afraid of death.
(d) Men have feelings too.
4. What does Uncle Bun accuse Father of doing?
(a) poisoning his food
(b) working too hard
(c) wasting money
(d) stealing his money
5. 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 bargain with the Treadmill Mining Company.
(b) China Men fight hand-to-hand battle with the miners.
(c) China Men replace white workers who had gone on strike.
(d) China Men bring back with them battalions of soldiers.
6. 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 meet her husband in Hong Kong.
(c) Aunt will own a shoe store throughout her life.
(d) Aunt will marry three times.
7. What animal does Lo Bun Sun make his pet and what does he teach it to do?
(a) Lo makes the cat from the ship his pet and he teaches it to come when called.
(b) Lo makes a parrot his pet and he teaches it how to speak so that Lo can hear a human voice.
(c) Lo makes the dog that he rescued from the ship his pet and he teaches it to retrieve the birds Lo shoots.
(d) Lo makes a goat his pet and he teaches the goat to attack its predators.
8. 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 sure the sightings are a mass hallucination.
(b) The officers are getting bitten by mosquitoes
(c) The searchers are convinced that no one could live in the swamp.
(d) The dogs find no scent to follow.
9. 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 are a traitor.
(b) Let me hear you speak English.
(c) You'll never survive here.
(d) You are lucky.
10. How is brother, returning from Vietnam, greeted when he walks from the bus station to his parents' home in Stockton?
(a) A party is just ending.
(b) No one is home.
(c) His mother forces him to eat so he will gain some weight.
(d) There is a huge surprise party held in his honor.
11. What do people in Alaska do to track events in their lives and their community?
(a) produce a weekly newspaper
(b) write in diaries
(c) post bulletins around towns
(d) hire a town crier
12. From whom do MaMa and Father have to keep their savings a secret?
(a) their six children
(b) MaMa's sister living in San Francisco
(c) the owner of the Gambling House
(d) their neighbors in Stockton
13. Which of the following is not something Sao does at his mother's grave?
(a) lights incense set in pails of sand
(b) pours wine into the earth
(c) heaps food and presents on her grave
(d) lights on fire paper replicas of money
14. What does Ch'u Yuan decide to do once he accepts that he cannot return home?
(a) Ch'u Yuan jumps in the river and drowns.
(b) Ch'u Yuan prays for with the corrupt world.
(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.
15. In addition to self-defense, what is the most influential element in the rule of law in Alaska in 1885?
(a) personal diaries of government officials
(b) newspapers and flyers
(c) China Men meetings
(d) miner's meetings
Short Answer Questions
1. What happens in Hawaii that prevents the Hundred-Year-Old Man from going to town in 1893?
2. What does it finally take to capture the Wild Man of the Green Swamp?
3. How long does the Wild Man elude capture in the Green Swamp?
4. Why is Kingston confused about the story of the gold needle in a mountain in the Philippines?
5. In what year is the birthday party for the 106-year-old man held in Hawaii?
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