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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 response does Kingston's oldest brother get from the Filipino and other island natives when he says he is a Chinese American?
(a) You'll never survive here.
(b) You are a traitor.
(c) You are lucky.
(d) Let me hear you speak English.

2. What tradition does Mad Sao perform at his mother's graveside that the Kingston family does not do after Uncle Kau's funeral?
(a) pours liquor into the groun
(b) tosses fake money around
(c) makes a fire and jump over it
(d) carries a casket with the body in it

3. In the first telling of the Driving Out of Alaska, who relocates the China Men?
(a) Indians in war canoes
(b) White demons with guns and tools
(c) Indians on a schooner
(d) Chinese scab laborers

4. To what city does the Filipino king send the mandarins to begin their search for the golden needle?
(a) Mexico City
(b) Cabit
(c) Bay of Manila
(d) The City of Gold

5. What does the Hundred-Year-Old Man say he carried with him from China to Hawai'i?
(a) pigs in cages and chives and onions growing in cans
(b) mementos from China, such a photos of his family
(c) extra water to keep his plants alive
(d) noodles, ginger, and dried fruit

Short Answer Questions

1. What reason do the white miners give for the decision to drive out the China Men?

2. How much time passes between the first and the second Driving Out in "Alaska China Men"?

3. What does Ch'u Yuan decide to do once he accepts that he cannot return home?

4. What word best describes the meaning of Ch'u Yuan's name?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. 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.

2. 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.

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

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

5. 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.

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

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

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

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

10. Explain why the Hundred-Year-Old Man's answer about how to stop the war in Vietnam is so simple.

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