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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. Who travels to Alaska during the Driving Out to help end the violence?
(a) Other company strikers from around the state
(b) Alaska's governor
(c) President of the United States
(d) The Calvary

2. What amount of pay is given to the Chinese workers in Hawaii for working in the cane fields?
(a) Four dollars a month
(b) One dollar a week
(c) Four dollars a week
(d) Four dollars and thirty cents

3. What does Kingston notice about the Wild Man as shown in the photos of his capture appearing in the newspaper?
(a) The Wild Man was crying as his captors led him out of the swamp.
(b) The Wild Man was neat and clean and did not act wild or fight his captors.
(c) The men in cowboy hats that escorted him out of the swamp appeared to have given quite a fight against the Wild Man.
(d) The Wild Man's hair and beard were extremely long, because he was unable to groom himself in the swamp.

4. What word best describes the meaning of Ch'u Yuan's name?
(a) righteous
(b) next king
(c) dirty crowd
(d) peace

5. What effects do the comic books have on Kingston and her Chinese American family?
(a) Comic books distract the children from the horrors of war by showing Chop Chop.
(b) Comic books gave Chinese Americans true and accurate information about the Vietnam War.
(c) The stories that were unfit for children must have been worse than guts hanging out.
(d) Comic books reinforce the stereotype of the Chinese American or Oriental.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which act shows that the mandarins are confident that they will find gold?

2. What does Kingston hear from her schoolmates that makes her long to be normal?

3. What do people in Alaska do to track events in their lives and their community?

4. What does it finally take to capture the Wild Man of the Green Swamp?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. 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.

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

3. 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.

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

5. Compare the Alaskan Driving Out with the California Driving Out of China Men.

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. 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?

8. 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.

9. 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?

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

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