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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. 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 bring back with them battalions of soldiers.
(d) China Men bargain with the Treadmill Mining Company.

2. What symbolizes to the Filipino king that the mandarin is of a higher social class than other Chinese already living there?
(a) The mandarins ride in ivory and gold chairs.
(b) The mandarins have secret knowledge of gold in the mountains.
(c) The mandarin ships are seaworthy.
(d) The mandarins have a Chinese in chains.

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

4. What do people in Alaska do to track events in their lives and their community?
(a) write in diaries
(b) produce a weekly newspaper
(c) hire a town crier
(d) post bulletins around towns

5. What does the Wild Man do on the night he learns that the Border Patrol is sending him back?
(a) He commits suicide by hanging himself with his belt.
(b) He beats the guards with his belt at the first opportunity.
(c) He escapes the jail and is never seen again.
(d) He pretends he is too sick to travel.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Uncle Bun accuse Father of doing?

2. How does Kingston's Father avoid the draft?

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

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

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

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

3. 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?

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

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

7. 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)!"

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

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

10. How does the Wild Man end up in a Tampa Hospital for the insane? Tell what happens once he is there.

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