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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the procedure that the women are using on Tang's feet called?
(a) bandaging
(b) footbinding
(c) swaddling
(d) streaming

2. How might Kingston's father's life have been different had he passed the Imperial Examinations with honors?
(a) Kingston's father may not have come to Gold Mountain.
(b) Kingston's father may have married an American woman.
(c) Kingston's father may have traveled the world in luxury.
(d) Kingston's father may not have had to work a single day in his life.

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

4. What purpose does the mother character serve by entering the story at this point?
(a) She becomes the focus of the children so that they stop focusing on the stranger.
(b) She provides an adult female presence to balance the male presence of the stranger.
(c) She moves the plot along and explains how the children could make such a mistake.
(d) She introduces a conflict that the children have to solve.

5. What reason is given for torturing Tang Ao?
(a) to make him look like a woman
(b) to prepare Tang to meet the queen
(c) to punish him for coming to the Land of Women
(d) to teach him a lesson about respecting women

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the women manage to capture Tang Ao?

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

3. What part of Tang Ao's wardrobe is shaped like a bridge?

4. From what point of view is "On Fathers" written?

5. Which two islands does Kingston suggest her father had gone to before entering America?

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