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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 happening on the East Coast at the same time as the Central Pacific is forging through the Sierra Nevada Mountains in the West?
(a) The French and Indian War
(b) The Revolutionary War
(c) World War I
(d) The U.S. Civil War

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

3. What is the one emotion that Tu Tzu-chun cannot overcome in his illusion?
(a) love
(b) joy
(c) desire
(d) sorrow

4. Which of the following is an example of figurative language?
(a) His good leather shoes with the wingtips
(b) We jumped off the fence.
(c) He took our hands out of his pockets.
(d) man wears our father's two-hundred dollar suit.

5. Who is the narrator in this chapter?
(a) the mother
(b) the stranger
(c) the author
(d) the father

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens after the bird laughs in "On Mortality Again"?

2. Which of the following is an example of a simile used in "The Ghostmate"?

3. Who is Tu Tzu-chun's examiner?

4. What culture is the character Maui from in "On Mortality Again"?

5. Which details from the text imply that Father is a successful business man?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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.

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

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

5. Explain the Fair Share Refugee Act of 1960.

6. Describe the basis of the queue tax.

7. Compare and contrast the genre used for "On Discovery" and for "On Fathers."

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

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

10. Describe the tenets of the philosophy of living multiple lives until you learn an important lesson.

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