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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The American Father.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the Displaced Persons Act passed in 1948 offer Chinese immigrants?
(a) between 1948-1954, ethnic Chinese could apply for citizenship.
(b) Homes for Chinese immigrants are given to those who are homeles
(c) Special Citizenship Judges are appointed to get individual private bills passed for a price.
(d) The act allows Chinese people to bring their close family members to the U.S.

2. What kind of business does Father buy?
(a) a laundry
(b) a barbershop
(c) a gambling house
(d) a tobacco shop

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

4. In what year did the U.S. immigration laws discard the Western Hemisphere quota and move to a worldwide quota?
(a) 1976
(b) 1978
(c) 1950
(d) 1948

5. How does the wife that great grandfather Bak Sook Goong takes back to China affect Kingston's heritage?
(a) The new wife's children start the line of Hawaiian-Chinese family members.
(b) The new wife has no affect on Kingston's heritage.
(c) The new wife refuses to blend with Bak Sook Goong's other wives, causing the first divorce in her family.
(d) The new wife insists on returning to Hawaii with the rest of the family, removing them from China for good.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Chinaman's hat in "The Great Grandfather of the Sandalwood Mountains"?

2. What does Kingston hear from her schoolmates that makes her long to be normal?

3. Why is there a communal dining room at the Chinese village where Kingston's ancestors lived?

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

5. What two actions result from the Scott Act of 1888?

(see the answer key)

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