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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 two actions result from the Scott Act of 1888?
(a) defining
(b) identifying free whites as eligible to apply for U.S. citizenship and giving African Aliens eligibility to apply for U.S. citizenshi
(c) suspending the Burlingame Treaty for 20 years and making Chinese men cut off their ponytails
(d) voiding Certificates of Return and requiring Certificate of Residence be shown on demand

2. In "The Ghostmate," what does the young man see along the path that comforts him a little?
(a) charging dogs
(b) red paper
(c) peacocks
(d) rabbits

3. What finally makes Tu Tzu-chun break his silence?
(a) Tu speaks for the first time.
(b) The pain Tu Tzu-chun feels when he's being tortured.
(c) Tu Tzu-chun screamed when he heard his wife's bones being broken.
(d) Tu sees her baby's head smashed against the rocks.

4. Why do the basketmen stop working in autumn?
(a) The baskets would fall apart because of age
(b) The season is a Chinese holiday
(c) Men do not have the right clothes
(d) The winds are too high to work at high elevation

5. Who are the children referring to when they call out, "BaBa!"?
(a) the stranger
(b) their grandparents
(c) their mother
(d) their father

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Ah Po show BaBa's brothers to explain that he is different from them?

3. Which is an example from the text of sensory details?

4. In Honolulu, what does Kingston's friend, the dancer, report about Kingston's ancestral village?

5. What is the meaning of the word hastening in the opening lines of "On Fathers"?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe how the author uses personification in "The Great Grandfather from the Sandalwood Mountains." Give examples from the text.

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

3. Describe the elements of fantasy Kingston uses to characterize Maui the Trickster in "On Mortality Again."

4. 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.

5. 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?

6. Briefly describe the process of footbinding and tell why the women sing to him when tightly bandaging his feet.

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

8. Describe grandmother's attitude toward grandfather, Ah Goong, citing examples from the chapter "The Grandfather of the Sierra Nevada Mountains."

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

10. What is the purpose for making Tang Ao's capture so easy it could be done by women?

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