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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 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 would settle in America with new wives
(c) that their husbands might bring back a new wife
(d) that their husbands will get harmed by bandits while still in China

2. How does great grandfather Bak Goong break the rules of silence while working in Sandalwood Mountain?
(a) Bak Goong deliberately sings in front of the masters.
(b) Bak Goong coughs out Chinese words the masters cannot understand.
(c) Bak Goong talks quietly to himself.
(d) Bak Goong sends written notes to other workers.

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

4. Which is the setting for Kingston's biography of great grandfather Bak Goong in "The Great Grandfather of Sandalwood Mountains"?
(a) Taiwan
(b) California
(c) Hawaii
(d) Cuba

5. How does the woman in "The Ghostmate" get her visitors to stay longer than they intend to?
(a) She convinces the young man that she is better for him than his wife.
(b) She brings the young man the very fruits, the very poem, the very game he likes best.
(c) She tells the young man the long story of her tragic life.
(d) She locks the young man in the dungeon.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does a Chinese bride do for three nights before she marries?

2. In "The Ghostmate," what does the young man see along the path that comforts him a little?

3. What are the "Jesus demons" trying to do when they visit the work camp where Bak Goong lives?

4. How are the two tales, "On Mortality" and "On Mortality Again" similar?

5. Who is the narrator in this chapter?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is the significance of the long path that leads to the widow's house in "The Ghostmate"?

4. How do the Chinese workers organize a strike against the railroad company without the "white demons" finding out?

5. Explain the irony of Maui the Trickster' s demise in "On Mortality Again."

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

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

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

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

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