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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 signed document states that Chinese and Americans could freely travel, trade, and live in either country?
(a) the queue tax
(b) the Burlingame Treaty
(c) the Nationality Act
(d) the Fourteenth Amendment

2. Who is the author speaking or writing to in the beginning of "The Father from China"?
(a) her siblings
(b) her mother
(c) her readers
(d) her father

3. What metaphor does Tang use to compare his bandages hanging to dry?
(a) like underwear
(b) streamers that drooped and draped wall to wall
(c) like a moth's wings
(d) gathered his toes over and under another

4. Who is Tu Tzu-chun's examiner?
(a) A Taoist monk
(b) Tu Tzu-chong reincarnated
(c) Tu Tzu-chun's father
(d) The Buddah

5. What indicates to the young man in "The Ghostmate" that the woman is "old style"?
(a) the food is just the right temperature
(b) she serves him a meal
(c) long combs and traditional eye make-up
(d) he does not like the clothing she left him

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the last thing the women do to prepare Tang to meet the queen?

3. How does the stranger respond to the children's mistake?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. Describe how Kingston feels about her father from China. Use details from the text to support your conclusions.

3. Evaluate the methods Kingston uses to reveal the passage of time while Ah Goong is working in the Sierra Nevada Mountains.

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

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

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

7. Compare and contrast the proverbs "On Mortality" and "On Mortality Again."

8. Describe the way the women pierce Tang Ao's ears and what they do to keep the holes open. Include examples of sensory details the author uses in the text.

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

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