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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 do Kingston's parents call the Chinese American traditionalists in California?
(a) superstitious, backward peasants
(b) sky chickens
(c) demon workers
(d) wheat germ

2. What does the blind fortune teller predict will happen to Kingston's San Francisco Aunt over her lifetime?
(a) Aunt will own a shoe store throughout her life.
(b) Aunt will marry three times.
(c) Aunt will gain and lose fortunes many times.
(d) Aunt will meet her husband in Hong Kong.

3. What animal does Lo Bun Sun make his pet and what does he teach it to do?
(a) Lo makes the cat from the ship his pet and he teaches it to come when called.
(b) Lo makes a goat his pet and he teaches the goat to attack its predators.
(c) Lo makes the dog that he rescued from the ship his pet and he teaches it to retrieve the birds Lo shoots.
(d) Lo makes a parrot his pet and he teaches it how to speak so that Lo can hear a human voice.

4. Which of the following is not something Sao does at his mother's grave?
(a) lights incense set in pails of sand
(b) pours wine into the earth
(c) lights on fire paper replicas of money
(d) heaps food and presents on her grave

5. What effects do the comic books have on Kingston and her Chinese American family?
(a) Comic books distract the children from the horrors of war by showing Chop Chop.
(b) Comic books gave Chinese Americans true and accurate information about the Vietnam War.
(c) The stories that were unfit for children must have been worse than guts hanging out.
(d) Comic books reinforce the stereotype of the Chinese American or Oriental.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ch'u Yuan decide to do once he accepts that he cannot return home?

2. What food product is Uncle Bun obsessed with when the reader first meets him?

3. How do readers know that the Hundred-Year-Old Man took a job in Hawai'i that paid for passage and offered steady pay, just the same as Kingston's great grandfather?

4. What does Kingston realize about men at Great Uncle Kau's funeral?

5. What does Say Goong call a "sky chicken"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What evidence in "The Wild Man of the Green Swamp" is there that shows the Wild Man's ingenuity?

2. Describe the relationship between Father and the owner of the Gambling House.

3. How does the Wild Man end up in a Tampa Hospital for the insane? Tell what happens once he is there.

4. What does Kingston mean at the end of "Alaska China Men" when she writes, ". . . perhaps any China Man was China Joe"?

5. Compare the Alaskan Driving Out with the California Driving Out of China Men.

6. Describe the experience of the AJA's (Americans of Japanese Ancestry) during World War II, using only details from Kingston's retelling of her memories and the stories she heard as a child.

7. Explain why members of the freighter's crew try to send their shipmate to China and describe the Wild Man's response at the airport.

8. Why does the author suggest that instead of the Driving Out in Alaska taking place twice that it could be the same story but with the dates mixed up?

9. Explain the irony of the mandarins requesting more ships in the story the Filipino scholar tells in "On Listening."

10. Explain why the Hundred-Year-Old Man's answer about how to stop the war in Vietnam is so simple.

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