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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. Why does Sao Elder Brother become known as Mad Sao?
2. Why does Great Aunt get herself smuggled into Hong Kong?
3. What does Uncle Bun accuse Father of doing?
4. How old is Lo Bun Sun when he returns to China and gets married?
5. How is brother, returning from Vietnam, greeted when he walks from the bus station to his parents' home in Stockton?
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 happens to Father after the Gambling House is closed permanently? How does Father recover?
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. Compare the Alaskan Driving Out with the California Driving Out of China Men.
6. 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.
7. 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?
8. Explain the irony of the mandarins requesting more ships in the story the Filipino scholar tells in "On Listening."
9. 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.
10. What is the significance of the last line in "The Hundred-Year-Old Man"?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Re-read the first two pages of Chapter 5, "The Great Grandfather of the Sandalwood Mountains." Summarize what happens when Kingston sends a distant cousin money for a bike. Kingston shows uncertainty regarding her decision not to send more money. Describe her reasons for the precaution she takes not to place her family in China any troubles.
Use this summary as a springboard to a longer essay regarding why Sojourners were expected to send money home to their Chinese wives and families. Why was this practice necessary? Does it stop at anytime during the time covered in Kingston's novel?
Essay Topic 2
Explore the meaning of Diaspora. Explain how a Diaspora of the China Men occurred in the United State. Find other examples of Diaspora events in history, such as the Jewish Diaspora of ancient times. Write a persuasive essay that defends or denies the practice of Diaspora. Include details you discovered during your research as well as details from the description of the Driving Out of Chinese immigrants in China Men.
Essay Topic 3
Identify times in Kingston's novel, China Men, when a character's expectations about Gold Mountain are not met. Compare and contrast characters' expectations with the reality they experience in America. Consider the plight of the Sojourners. Why do so many return to China? Why do some stay in America, leaving their families behind in a hostile China?
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