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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through On Mortality Again.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following from "The Ghostmate" shows that the young man is feeling guilty about not returning to his family?
(a) Instead he feeds like a zoo animal.
(b) The young husband should have hinted for some leftovers to bring home.
(c) His wife would enjoy hearing about his lucky night.
(d) He asks, "Do you live alone?"

2. Why does Kingston grow up thinking her Father hates girls and women?
(a) Father would punish Kingston and her siblings by not speaking to them.
(b) Father wakes up screaming from nightmares at night.
(c) Kingston has memories of her father cursing about gypsies that swindled him.
(d) Father had a bad experience with his own mother that Kingston doesn't understand.

3. What does Ah Po show BaBa's brothers to explain that he is different from them?
(a) BaBa was the largest boy born so far in the family.
(b) BaBa's hair was a different color than theirs.
(c) BaBa's skinny, frail body had hands made for holding pens.
(d) BaBa's head was shaped differently than theirs.

4. What is the one emotion that Tu Tzu-chun cannot overcome in his illusion?
(a) love
(b) joy
(c) sorrow
(d) desire

5. Why would the woman in "The Ghostmate" ask the young man to make her shoes?
(a) The woman wants her visitor to leave right away.
(b) The woman is poor and needs a pair of shoes.
(c) The woman keeps her visitors with her by making them make things for her.
(d) The woman is trying to distract the young man from the storm.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the last thing the women do to prepare Tang to meet the queen?

2. Which best describes the author when she sends money to her cousin in China?

3. The seer does not disturb the spirits in the clouds in "On Mortality Again" __________________________.

4. What purpose does the mother character serve by entering the story at this point?

5. What culture is the character Maui from in "On Mortality Again"?

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