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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 happens that begins Father's most dismal time in "The American Father"?
(a) The children get out of control, and Father beats his daughter with a hangar.
(b) MaMa has an accident at the cannery and dies.
(c) The Gambling house is raided and closed permanently.
(d) MaMa shames him into taking a low-wage laborer job.

2. 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 are a traitor.
(b) You are lucky.
(c) You'll never survive here.
(d) Let me hear you speak English.

3. When the fish-and-game wardens and sheriff deputies use dogs to search for the Wild Man, why is their search so short?
(a) The dogs find no scent to follow.
(b) The officers are getting bitten by mosquitoes
(c) The officers are sure the sightings are a mass hallucination.
(d) The searchers are convinced that no one could live in the swamp.

4. In what year is the birthday party for the 106-year-old man held in Hawaii?
(a) 1983
(b) 1969
(c) 1885
(d) 1893

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Ch'u Yuan looking for as he seeks another like him in the world?

2. What tradition does Mad Sao perform at his mother's graveside that the Kingston family does not do after Uncle Kau's funeral?

3. What does the Hundred-Year-Old Man say he carried with him from China to Hawai'i?

4. How does the game officer that first spots the Wild Man in the Green Swamp know that what he sees is not a bear?

5. What food product is Uncle Bun obsessed with when the reader first meets him?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. 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.

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

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

7. 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.

8. 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?

9. 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.

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

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