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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. How is brother, returning from Vietnam, greeted when he walks from the bus station to his parents' home in Stockton?
(a) No one is home.
(b) A party is just ending.
(c) His mother forces him to eat so he will gain some weight.
(d) There is a huge surprise party held in his honor.

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

3. What does Lo Bun Sun call the two shelters he builds on the island?
(a) shelters
(b) caves
(c) castles
(d) mansions

4. What kind of poem does Ch'u Yuan write before he drowns?
(a) a poem of questions with no answers
(b) an epic tale told in poetic form
(c) a pourqois poem
(d) a haiku

5. Where do the mandarins seeking gold land their ship?
(a) Spain
(b) Mexico
(c) Bay of Manila
(d) California

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Say Goong call a "sky chicken"?

2. How many China Men make up the Chinese population in Alaska?

3. What does the Hundred-Year-Old man do to rest during his trips to town early in his time in Hawaii?

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

5. What does Kingston notice about the Wild Man as shown in the photos of his capture appearing in the newspaper?

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

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

5. 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.

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

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. 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?

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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