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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Wild Man of the Green Swamp.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What do the two old women do to Tang Ao with the needles?
(a) pierce Tang's tongue
(b) pin Tang's ears to his head
(c) pierce Tang's ears
(d) sew Tang's lips shut

3. Who is Tu Tzu-chun's examiner?
(a) A Taoist monk
(b) The Buddah
(c) Tu Tzu-chong reincarnated
(d) Tu Tzu-chun's father

4. What mood does the letter from Kingston's friend, the physicist, reflect about his return visit to their common ancestral village?
(a) indifference
(b) hostile
(c) hopeful
(d) despair

5. Who is the author speaking or writing to in the beginning of "The Father from China"?
(a) her siblings
(b) her readers
(c) her mother
(d) her father

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When does the story of Tu-Tzu-chin take place?

3. Which tax is enforced on Chinese immigrants living in California in order to pay for the extra policing their presence requires?

4. In the first telling of the Driving Out of Alaska, who relocates the China Men?

5. What food product is Uncle Bun obsessed with when the reader first meets him?

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