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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 does Kingston realize about men at Great Uncle Kau's funeral?
(a) Men must carry the casket out of the demon mortuary.
(b) Men have feelings too.
(c) Men are afraid of death.
(d) Men grow very old before they die.

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

3. What drives the Wild Man to hysterics while he is in the jail?
(a) being locked up for three days straight
(b) not being able to speak with the authorities
(c) severe homesickness
(d) The Border Patrol is sending him back.

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

5. Which act shows that the mandarins are confident that they will find gold?
(a) The mandarins agree to build roads and railroads for the Filipino king.
(b) The Chinese workers have babies and start families here.
(c) The mandarins sail further and further inland.
(d) The mandarins ask for more ships to carry all the gold.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In addition to self-defense, what is the most influential element in the rule of law in Alaska in 1885?

3. What kind of business does Father buy?

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

5. What two goals does Father finally reach by the end of "The American Father"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

8. Create a dictionary using words from the chapter, "The Li Sao: An Elegy." Choose words that readers will need to have knowledge of in order to understand the story. Create a display using words that fit the theme of the folktale, such as phoenix, mourned, epic, elegy, lament, sorrow, estrangement, incorruptible, entwined, requiem, warmongers, etc.

9. 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.

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

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