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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Alaska China Men.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is happening on the East Coast at the same time as the Central Pacific is forging through the Sierra Nevada Mountains in the West?
(a) The U.S. Civil War
(b) The French and Indian War
(c) World War I
(d) The Revolutionary War

2. Which is an example from the text of sensory details?
(a) mother came out of the house
(b) watched the man walk away
(c) noses against his coat to sniff his tobacco smell
(d) gold coins that were really chocolate

3. Tu cannot deliver his messages and take care of his urgent things after he exits the tunnel because _____________________________.
(a) The tunnel is a passage to his rebirth as an infant.
(b) No one will listen to Tu's messages or help him with urgent matters.
(c) Explosions inside the tunnel made Tu deaf and mute.
(d) When he ermerges from the tunnel, he is lost.

4. How does the stranger respond to the children's mistake?
(a) He is speechless and ignores them altogether.
(b) He laughs and tells them they made a mistake.
(c) He gets angry and yells at Mother.
(d) He swats the children away from him as if they were flies.

5. What is the consequence of Tu Tzu-chun failing the monk's test?
(a) Humanity will become deaf and mute.
(b) All Chinese babies will be born with a
(c) Tu Tzu-chun must repay all the money he spent over the last three lifetimes.
(d) Humanity has lost the chance for immortality.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the one emotion that Tu Tzu-chun cannot overcome in his illusion?

2. Who is Guan Goong?

3. Which of the following from "The Ghostmate" shows that the young man is feeling guilty about not returning to his family?

4. Why would the woman in "The Ghostmate" ask the young man to make her shoes?

5. How does Kingston show that the main character is enjoying his feast with the woman of the house in "The Ghostmate"?

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