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

2. How old is Lo Bun Sun when he returns to China and gets married?
(a) one-hundred-years-old
(b) sixty-years-old
(c) fifty-years-old
(d) forty-five-years-old

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

4. How do readers know that the Hundred-Year-Old Man took a job in Hawai'i that paid for passage and offered steady pay, just the same as Kingston's great grandfather?
(a) The old man sees the King and Prince of the Hawai'ian Islands who offer him work, just as in the great grandfather's story.
(b) Both the Hundred-Year-Old Man and great grandfather enjoyed watching the small sugarcane plants grow, therefore the two men must have worked at the same time.
(c) The old man has only left the island two times in his life to go to other Hawai'ian Islands, same as great grandfather who decides to remain in Hawai'i and not return to China.
(d) The details of the old man's experiences with working to clear land, going to town on pay day, and how he spent his money are the same as in the story told about Kingston's great grandfather.

5. What does Ch'u Yuan decide to do once he accepts that he cannot return home?
(a) Ch'u Yuan tells the river all of his tales.
(b) Ch'u Yuan jumps in the river and drowns.
(c) Ch'u Yuan starts the tradition of wrapping rice in leaves once every year
(d) Ch'u Yuan prays for with the corrupt world.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the fish-and-game wardens and sheriff deputies use dogs to search for the Wild Man, why is their search so short?

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

3. What month is stated as the date for both stories of the Driving Out in Alaska?

4. What does the blind fortune teller predict will happen to Kingston's San Francisco Aunt over her lifetime?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

6. Explain why the people that meet Li Sao realize too late that he is the last righteous human being. What do the people do to get Li Sao to return to Earth? What are the results of the people's attempts?

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

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

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

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

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