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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 happens in Hawaii that prevents the Hundred-Year-Old Man from going to town in 1893?
(a) The American Civil War
(b) The American revolution against Queen Lili'uokalani
(c) The Communist Revolution in China
(d) The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor

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

3. What amount of pay is given to the Chinese workers in Hawaii for working in the cane fields?
(a) Four dollars a week
(b) Four dollars and thirty cents
(c) Four dollars a month
(d) One dollar a week

4. 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 reinforce the stereotype of the Chinese American or Oriental.
(c) Comic books gave Chinese Americans true and accurate information about the Vietnam War.
(d) The stories that were unfit for children must have been worse than guts hanging out.

5. How does Kingston refer to "The Adventures of Lo Bun Sun," based on her childhood perspective?
(a) Kingston says that this story was reminiscent of the China Men she saw leaving for Gold Mountain.
(b) Kingston says that it was very hard to sit through MaMa's reading of this book.
(c) Kingston says that
(d) Kingston says this is one of the more boring books her mother read to her.

Short Answer Questions

1. What response does Kingston's oldest brother get from the Filipino and other island natives when he says he is a Chinese American?

2. How does the game officer that first spots the Wild Man in the Green Swamp know that what he sees is not a bear?

3. How does Sao rid himself of his mother's ghost?

4. What does the Hundred-Year-Old man do to rest during his trips to town early in his time in Hawaii?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. 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.

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

4. What does Lo Bun Sun's constant work and preparation suggest about his character?

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

6. Analyze Kingston's narrative about Uncle Kau Goong and his elderly wife. Explain why Great Aunt goes to Hong Kong and then back to China. Describe Uncle Kau's response to Great Aunt's pleas to be together again. Students might suggest the importance of Kau's final words on the subject: "We belong here (America)!"

7. Describe the relationship between Lo Bun Sun and Sing Kay Ng.

8. 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.

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

10. 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?

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