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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. Where else on the globe do the Chinese look for gold, according to the Filipino scholar in "On Listening"?
(a) Spain
(b) Mexico
(c) Philippines
(d) China

2. What animal does Lo Bun Sun make his pet and what does he teach it to do?
(a) Lo makes the dog that he rescued from the ship his pet and he teaches it to retrieve the birds Lo shoots.
(b) Lo makes a goat his pet and he teaches the goat to attack its predators.
(c) Lo makes the cat from the ship his pet and he teaches it to come when called.
(d) Lo makes a parrot his pet and he teaches it how to speak so that Lo can hear a human voice.

3. What is Ch'u Yuan looking for as he seeks another like him in the world?
(a) an arrogant, all-knowing citizen
(b) a phoenix dispossessed
(c) a lost prince trying to spread the word of peace
(d) an uncorrupted human being

4. What are the contents of the Wild Man's bag which is made from a pair of pants?
(a) clean clothes and cooking utensils
(b) a pot, a sharp piece of tin, and a hand-made club
(c) ead snakes, turtles, armadillos, and alligators
(d) a gun, ammunition, and pictures of his family in Taiwan

5. After Captain Carroll rescues the China Men from being adrift in the sea, where do the China Men ask the Captain to take them?
(a) Cuba
(b) California
(c) Douglas Island
(d) China

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Sao Elder Brother become known as Mad Sao?

2. What personal theory does Kingston recall testing when she was child?

3. What details do we learn about the Wild Man when he talks to the translator in his jail cell?

4. What does Uncle Bun accuse Father of doing?

5. What symbolizes to the Filipino king that the mandarin is of a higher social class than other Chinese already living there?

Short Essay Questions

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

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. 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?

4. 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)!"

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

6. 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.

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

8. 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?

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

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

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