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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 tradition does Mad Sao perform at his mother's graveside that the Kingston family does not do after Uncle Kau's funeral?
(a) carries a casket with the body in it
(b) tosses fake money around
(c) makes a fire and jump over it
(d) pours liquor into the groun

2. In the second telling of the Driving Out in Alaska, what do returning China Men do to get back to their homes and their jobs?
(a) China Men replace white workers who had gone on strike.
(b) China Men fight hand-to-hand battle with the miners.
(c) China Men bargain with the Treadmill Mining Company.
(d) China Men bring back with them battalions of soldiers.

3. How does Sing Kay Ng get his name?
(a) Lo Bun Sun names him Sing Kay Ng because it means fleeing man.
(b) Lo Bun Sun names him Sing Kay Ng because the man has a limp.
(c) Sing Kay Ng gets his Chinese name from his Chinese mother.
(d) Sing Kay Ng makes up his own name after he learns Chinese from Lo Bun Sun.

4. How were the Indians in Alaska treated by the "gold seeking" miners?
(a) They are driven out at gunpoint.
(b) They are welcomed as extra labor.
(c) They are kept as slaves by white demons.
(d) Some are tortured and murdered in public.

5. How old is Lo Bun Sun when he returns to China and gets married?
(a) sixty-years-old
(b) forty-five-years-old
(c) fifty-years-old
(d) one-hundred-years-old

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the contents of the Wild Man's bag which is made from a pair of pants?

2. What does the Hundred-Year-Old Man say he carried with him from China to Hawai'i?

3. To what does Kingston refer with the metaphor "the living night"?

4. After Captain Carroll rescues the China Men from being adrift in the sea, where do the China Men ask the Captain to take them?

5. What drives the Wild Man to hysterics while he is in the jail?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the relationship between Father and the owner of the Gambling House.

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

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

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

5. Explain why the people that meet Li Sao realize too late that he is the last righteous human being. What do the people do to get Li Sao to return to Earth? What are the results of the people's attempts?

6. 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.

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

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

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

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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