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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. Why was Ch'u Yuan banished from the Center and from the Royal Court?
(a) Ch'u Yuan is a spy for the Ch'in army.
(b) The King blames Ch'u Yuan for losing the war against Ch'in.
(c) The King asks Ch'u Yuan to spread his philosophy to the outer world.
(d) Ch'u Yuan seeks the opinion of fishermen and other non-royals.

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

3. Why is Kingston confused about the story of the gold needle in a mountain in the Philippines?
(a) Kingston cannot understand the scholar's accent.
(b) Kingston doesn't hear the Filipino clearly, because others were speaking over him.
(c) Kingston is confused because she thought the Chinese only went to Hawai'i and California.
(d) Kingston doesn't know whether the Filipino king tricked the mandarins or not.

4. 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 a month
(c) Four dollars and thirty cents
(d) One dollar a week

5. Which statement best describes Kingston's attitude toward the Communists?
(a) The Chinese state of Communists, like Great Grandfather said, will become a World of Communism.
(b) Communists all look the same in photographs; which are men and which are women?
(c) Communists thought they converted us, but neighbors remained true to one another.
(d) Communists are mere monkeys trying to be human beings.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What word best describes the meaning of Ch'u Yuan's name?

4. How does Kingston's Father avoid the draft?

5. What does Uncle Bun accuse Father of doing?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the significance of the last line in "The Hundred-Year-Old Man"?

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

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

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

6. 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.

7. 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)!"

8. 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.

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

10. 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.

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