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

2. What feature of the Wild Man that Kingston saw as a child is distinctly different from the Wild Man caught in 1975?
(a) The Wild Man Kingston saw was dirty.
(b) The Wild Man Kingston saw was never captured.
(c) The Wild Man Kingston saw was naked.
(d) The Wild Man Kingston saw was a black man.

3. What does Ch'u Yuan decide to do once he accepts that he cannot return home?
(a) Ch'u Yuan jumps in the river and drowns.
(b) Ch'u Yuan tells the river all of his tales.
(c) Ch'u Yuan starts the tradition of wrapping rice in leaves once every year
(d) Ch'u Yuan prays for with the corrupt world.

4. 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?
(a) The old man has only left the island two times in his life to go to other Hawai'ian Islands, same as great grandfather who decides to remain in Hawai'i and not return to China.
(b) Both the Hundred-Year-Old Man and great grandfather enjoyed watching the small sugarcane plants grow, therefore the two men must have worked at the same time.
(c) The details of the old man's experiences with working to clear land, going to town on pay day, and how he spent his money are the same as in the story told about Kingston's great grandfather.
(d) The old man sees the King and Prince of the Hawai'ian Islands who offer him work, just as in the great grandfather's story.

5. How does the game officer that first spots the Wild Man in the Green Swamp know that what he sees is not a bear?
(a) The officer calls out to the Wild Man who responds in a language the officer cannot understand.
(b) The Wild Man drags a burlap bag behind him.
(c) The Wild Man stands up and confronts the officer.
(d) The officer sees a figure hunched over a fire.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is not something Sao does at his mother's grave?

2. The author of "The Li Sao" is

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

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

5. Why does Great Aunt get herself smuggled into Hong Kong?

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

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

4. 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.

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

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

7. 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?

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

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

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

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