1. How does great grandfather Bak Goong break the rules of silence while working in Sandalwood Mountain?
(a) Bak Goong sends written notes to other workers.
(b) Bak Goong talks quietly to himself.
(c) Bak Goong deliberately sings in front of the masters.
(d) Bak Goong coughs out Chinese words the masters cannot understand.

2. What two actions result from the Scott Act of 1888?
(a) suspending the Burlingame Treaty for 20 years and making Chinese men cut off their ponytails
(b) identifying free whites as eligible to apply for U.S. citizenship and giving African Aliens eligibility to apply for U.S. citizenshi
(c) voiding Certificates of Return and requiring Certificate of Residence be shown on demand
(d) defining

3. What is the result of the 1952 Immigration and Nationality Act?
(a) It allowed merchant wives to enter the country.
(b) It distributed 18,000 visas that had not been used.
(c) It allowed thousands of Hong Kong parolees to enter the U.S.
(d) It restricted immigration into the United States.

4. What signed document states that Chinese and Americans could freely travel, trade, and live in either country?
(a) the Burlingame Treaty
(b) the Fourteenth Amendment
(c) the queue tax
(d) the Nationality Act

5. Which congressional act in 1882 bans Chinese laborers from entering the U.S. for ten years?
(a) the revoking of Certificate of Residence
(b) Chinese Exclusion Act
(c) Nationality Act
(d) the revised Burlingame Treaty

Short Answer Questions

1. Which Supreme Court case overturns San Francisco safety ordinances, thereby admitting that California laws are designed to harass Chinese immigrants?

2. What is the significance of the Supreme Court ruling in the1898 case, The United States v. Wong Kim Ark?

3. What personal theory does Kingston recall testing when she was child?

4. Which best describes the author when she sends money to her cousin in China?

5. In what year did the U.S. immigration laws discard the Western Hemisphere quota and move to a worldwide quota?

(see the answer key)

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