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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Lo Sun Bun's father tell him before Lo heads out to sea?
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 effects do the comic books have on Kingston and her Chinese American family?
4. What kind of business does Father buy?
5. What are the contents of the Wild Man's bag which is made from a pair of pants?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Kingston mean at the end of "Alaska China Men" when she writes, ". . . perhaps any China Man was China Joe"?
2. What evidence in "The Wild Man of the Green Swamp" is there that shows the Wild Man's ingenuity?
3. 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.
4. What happens to Father after the Gambling House is closed permanently? How does Father recover?
5. Compare the Alaskan Driving Out with the California Driving Out of China Men.
6. Compare and contrast grandfather Ah Goong's experiences during the Driving Out with those that took place in Alaska according to Kingston's narrative.
7. 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?
8. Explain the irony of the mandarins requesting more ships in the story the Filipino scholar tells in "On Listening."
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 is the significance of Kingston's modern Auntie's marriage to I Fu?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write a book review of Maxine Hong Kingston's novel China Men. Briefly summarize the plot line in the story, and then describe Kingston's approach to the subject as an author. Finally, tell whether you would recommend this book to someone else. Explain your recommendation to your reader.
Essay Topic 2
Throughout the novel, Kingston makes reference to the different cultures living within China, including the Cantonese, the Han, and later the Mandarin. Explain the references that the author makes to each ethnicity and provide the context in which she is describing it. Which one is Kingston? How do you know?
Essay Topic 3
Kingston provides several examples of the use of the color red by Chinese. What does the color red symbolize for Chinese people? In what ways do Chinese people integrate the color red into their lives?
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