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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which Supreme Court case overturns San Francisco safety ordinances, thereby admitting that California laws are designed to harass Chinese immigrants?
(a) The United States v. Mrs. Cue Lim
(b) Chae Chan Ping v. The United States
(c) Yick Wo v. Hopkins
(d) Yue Ting v. The United States

2. What is the Chinaman's hat in "The Great Grandfather of the Sandalwood Mountains"?
(a) the place in town where Chinese workers gamble
(b) a hat to protect the Chinese workers
(c) an island
(d) the top of Sandalwood Mountain

3. To what does the narrator in "The Ghostmate" compare the woman's hair?
(a) a light-colored dress
(b) lumps of peacocks
(c) long black tail alive
(d) follows her retreating back

4. What is Tang Ao doing when he meets the Queen?
(a) putting jade studs into his ears
(b) playing an instrument
(c) serving a meal to the Queen's court
(d) having a meal with the queen's court

5. What happens after the bird laughs in "On Mortality Again"?
(a) Hina wakes up.
(b) Maui quickly escapes.
(c) Maui is eaten by Hina.
(d) The land falls back into the sea.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is it that Maui instructs all the living creatures on Earth to do in order to accomplish his goal?

2. What signed document states that Chinese and Americans could freely travel, trade, and live in either country?

3. Which railroad company building the Transcontinental Railroad does Ah Goong work for?

4. What does the monk say Tu Tzu-chun has to do to repay him the third time?

5. Who were the Gold Mountain Sojourners?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why would Tang beg to have the bandages replaced tightly after having the them removed from his feet?

2. Describe the basis of the queue tax.

3. Describe the way great grandfather Bak Goong ends up working in the Sandalwood Mountains in Hawaii?

4. What purpose is served when Bak Goong tells his fellow workers the tale about the King who fathered a prince with cat ears and keeps it a secret?

5. At the end of the "The Laws," Kingston predicts that the 1980 census may show that a million or more ethnic Chinese will be living in the United States. Why does she have to predict the census numbers?

6. Tell what the Four Valuable Things are and explain their importance to the Chinese culture.

7. Explain the cause for the children's confusion and its effects on the characters in "On Fathers."

8. Explain how the author uses foreshadowing in the first two lines of "On Mortality."

9. In "On Mortality," how does the author make the reader sympathize with Tu when he is born as a deaf-mute girl child?

10. Explain how prior knowledge or a similar experience can help a reader understand the events that occur in "On Fathers."

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