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

2. From what point of view is "On Fathers" written?
(a) first-person narrative
(b) first-person observer
(c) third--person omniscient
(d) third-person limited

3. Which details from the text imply that Father is a successful business man?
(a) He wears a coat with tobacco smell.
(b) He is tall and thin.
(c) He continues his walk down our street.
(d) He wears two-hundred dollar suits and good leather shoes with wingtips.

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

5. 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 had to work a single day in his life.
(b) Kingston's father may have traveled the world in luxury.
(c) Kingston's father may not have come to Gold Mountain.
(d) Kingston's father may have married an American woman.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the narrator in this chapter?

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

3. How does the wife that great grandfather Bak Sook Goong takes back to China affect Kingston's heritage?

4. Which of the following indicates that "The Ghostmate" is a fantasy?

5. What mood does the letter from Kingston's friend, the physicist, reflect about his return visit to their common ancestral village?

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