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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 Kingston realize about men at Great Uncle Kau's funeral?
2. What does the Wild Man do on the night he learns that the Border Patrol is sending him back?
3. What does Kingston notice about the Wild Man as shown in the photos of his capture appearing in the newspaper?
4. In the first telling of the Driving Out of Alaska, who relocates the China Men?
5. Who travels to Alaska during the Driving Out to help end the violence?
Short Essay Questions
1. What happens to Father after the Gambling House is closed permanently? How does Father recover?
2. Analyze Kingston's narrative about Uncle Kau Goong and his elderly wife. Explain why Great Aunt goes to Hong Kong and then back to China. Describe Uncle Kau's response to Great Aunt's pleas to be together again. Students might suggest the importance of Kau's final words on the subject: "We belong here (America)!"
3. What is the significance of the last line in "The Hundred-Year-Old Man"?
4. 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.
5. Summarize Kingston's childhood account of seeing a "Wild Man" every day when she and her sister walked to school.
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. Explain the irony of the mandarins requesting more ships in the story the Filipino scholar tells in "On Listening."
8. How does the Wild Man end up in a Tampa Hospital for the insane? Tell what happens once he is there.
9. What does Kingston mean at the end of "Alaska China Men" when she writes, ". . . perhaps any China Man was China Joe"?
10. What evidence in "The Wild Man of the Green Swamp" is there that shows the Wild Man's ingenuity?
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
Explain how Kingston's Father is different from his brothers. Describe the causes and effects of several events which occurred during Father's life. How did Father's position of favoritism by his mother and repugnance by his father ultimately affect Kingston's Father? Support your conclusions with details from the text or with personal experiences.
Essay Topic 3
Study the immigration laws currently on the books in the United States. Compare them to "The Laws" the author describes in that chapter. Verify the accuracy of the laws Kingston describes. Note that some of the laws address California immigration, and others were passed by the federal government. How have the laws changed since Kingston wrote this novel in 1977? Do you think the changes have been positive or negative? How do the modern laws affect different people?
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