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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 does the Hundred-Year-Old Man say he carried with him from China to Hawai'i?
(a) extra water to keep his plants alive
(b) mementos from China, such a photos of his family
(c) noodles, ginger, and dried fruit
(d) pigs in cages and chives and onions growing in cans

2. What response does Kingston's oldest brother get from the Filipino and other island natives when he says he is a Chinese American?
(a) You are a traitor.
(b) You'll never survive here.
(c) You are lucky.
(d) Let me hear you speak English.

3. Why does Great Aunt get herself smuggled into Hong Kong?
(a) Great Aunt is being hunted by the Communist in China.
(b) Great Aunt hopes Uncle Kau will live out their last days in Hong Kong since it is not Communist.
(c) Great Aunt, a ninety years old, wants to prove to herself she can get to Hong Kong without being detected.
(d) Great Aunt had lived her whole life in one village and she wanted to see a big city.

4. Where do the mandarins seeking gold land their ship?
(a) California
(b) Spain
(c) Bay of Manila
(d) Mexico

5. What does it finally take to capture the Wild Man of the Green Swamp?
(a) tracking dogs and hunters with guns
(b) a farmer hold him at gunpoint until the authorities arrive
(c) a sophisticated trap set in the swamp
(d) an air and land search by a posse

Short Answer Questions

1. What month is stated as the date for both stories of the Driving Out in Alaska?

2. How were the Indians in Alaska treated by the "gold seeking" miners?

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

4. What two goals does Father finally reach by the end of "The American Father"?

5. To what city does the Filipino king send the mandarins to begin their search for the golden needle?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. 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.

5. What is the significance of Kingston's modern Auntie's marriage to I Fu?

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

7. Retell the Filipino scholar's story about the Chinese first coming to the Philippines in search of gold. Be sure to include only the information that the scholar provides. Don't be distracted by the party-goers' interruptions.

8. 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)!"

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

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

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