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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Great Grandfather of the Sandalwood Mountains.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where in the world is the Women's Land according to ancient scholars?
(a) Africa
(b) China
(c) Antarctica
(d) North America

2. What does Ah Goong, BaBa's father, do with BaBa that horrifies the family?
(a) Ah Goong sang girl songs to BaBa.
(b) Ah Goong jumped on BaBa's stomach for hours.
(c) Ah Goong climbed high up to a second floor window to watch BaBa be born.
(d) Ah Goong trades BaBa for a neighbor's girl baby.

3. Where do Ed and MaMa go after Ed is ousted from the laundry business?
(a) to California
(b) to Alaska
(c) to Long Island
(d) to the movies

4. In Honolulu, what does Kingston's friend, the dancer, report about Kingston's ancestral village?
(a) the people in the village are ignorant and lazy
(b) family members had been forced out to build apartments
(c) the people greeted her with a parade
(d) the people are housed and fed

5. Which is the setting for Kingston's biography of great grandfather Bak Goong in "The Great Grandfather of Sandalwood Mountains"?
(a) Cuba
(b) Taiwan
(c) Hawaii
(d) California

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author speaking or writing to in the beginning of "The Father from China"?

2. What reason is given for torturing Tang Ao?

3. Who were the Gold Mountain Sojourners?

4. What was used first to keep the holes open in Tang Ao's earlobes?

5. Why does the young man enter the house of the young widow?

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