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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. What is the consequence of Tu Tzu-chun failing the monk's test?
(a) Humanity has lost the chance for immortality.
(b) All Chinese babies will be born with a
(c) Tu Tzu-chun must repay all the money he spent over the last three lifetimes.
(d) Humanity will become deaf and mute.

2. Where in the world is the Women's Land according to ancient scholars?
(a) China
(b) North America
(c) Africa
(d) Antarctica

3. Why is there a communal dining room at the Chinese village where Kingston's ancestors lived?
(a) The Communists serve food to villagers in large dining halls
(b) All the villagers are prisoners of war.
(c) It is a traditional way of sharing meals in Chinese villages.
(d) All the villagers' homes are destroyed by bombs.

4. What were the Chinese wives most likely afraid of when their husbands left for Gold Mountain?
(a) that their husbands would return broke and broken
(b) that their husbands will get harmed by bandits while still in China
(c) that their husbands would settle in America with new wives
(d) that their husbands might bring back a new wife

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was used first to keep the holes open in Tang Ao's earlobes?

2. In "The Ghostmate, what imagery does Kingston use when the main character arrives at the house?

3. What is Tang Ao doing when he meets the Queen?

4. What technology changes the way the Central Pacific Railroad tunnels through mountains in the Sierra Nevada?

5. What does the monk tell Tu Tzu-chun about the task he has in store for Tu?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain how the author of "The Ghostmate" cues the reader that the main character represents any China Man in their youth.

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

3. Do you think this chapter "On Fathers" takes place in China or in America? Give reasons for your choice, citing examples from the text.

4. How does Kingston employ humor in "On Mortality Again"?

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

6. Why does Bak Goong have so much trouble staying quiet while working in the cane fields?

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

8. Provide examples from "The Ghostmate" of vivid imagery that reveals the man's mood as he heads back to his childhood home. Is the young man happy or sad?

9. Explain the progression of laws that at first limited Chinese family members from entering the U.S. to the laws that allowed them entry whether the quota had been met or not.

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

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