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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 reason do the white miners give for the decision to drive out the China Men?
(a) for paying Citizenship Judges to become citizens
(b) for stoning a woman in Juneau
(c) for getting richer by working harder
(d) for fighting with the Indians

2. Where else on the globe do the Chinese look for gold, according to the Filipino scholar in "On Listening"?
(a) Philippines
(b) Mexico
(c) China
(d) Spain

3. What kind of business does Father buy?
(a) a gambling house
(b) a laundry
(c) a tobacco shop
(d) a barbershop

4. What does the Wild Man do on the night he learns that the Border Patrol is sending him back?
(a) He escapes the jail and is never seen again.
(b) He beats the guards with his belt at the first opportunity.
(c) He pretends he is too sick to travel.
(d) He commits suicide by hanging himself with his belt.

5. What animal does Lo Bun Sun make his pet and what does he teach it to do?
(a) Lo makes a goat his pet and he teaches the goat to attack its predators.
(b) Lo makes the cat from the ship his pet and he teaches it to come when called.
(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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do people in Alaska do to track events in their lives and their community?

2. Why is Kingston confused about the story of the gold needle in a mountain in the Philippines?

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. Which statement best describes Kingston's attitude toward the Communists?

5. For whom do the Juneau citizens hold the largest funeral Alaska ever sees?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Summarize Kingston's childhood account of seeing a "Wild Man" every day when she and her sister walked to school.

3. Compare and contrast grandfather Ah Goong's experiences during the Driving Out with those that took place in Alaska according to Kingston's narrative.

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

5. At the end of the story about Kau and Great Aunt, Kingston writes that the Great Aunt's return to Red China is a clue that the country of their heritage is not as bad as the stories imply. What does this reveal to the reader about the narrator and her understanding of Communist China?

6. Create a dictionary using words from the chapter, "The Li Sao: An Elegy." Choose words that readers will need to have knowledge of in order to understand the story. Create a display using words that fit the theme of the folktale, such as phoenix, mourned, epic, elegy, lament, sorrow, estrangement, incorruptible, entwined, requiem, warmongers, etc.

7. Compare and contrast Uncle Bun's beliefs about the benefits of communism and his dreams of a Communist World and Father's political beliefs.

8. How does Kingston give the reader information about the Communist Revolution and the later wars? Include details about her brother's experience in the Navy as a pacifist.

9. 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?

10. What happens to Father after the Gambling House is closed permanently? How does Father recover?

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