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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Li Sao: An Elegy.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lo Sun Bun's father tell him before Lo heads out to sea?
(a) I wish you good and safe travel my son.
(b) Heaven will not bless you.
(c) I disown you as my son.
(d) Please return home soon.

2. When does the story of Tu-Tzu-chin take place?
(a) modern times
(b) middle of the 19th century
(c) middle of the 16th century
(d) middle of the 1st century

3. What signed document states that Chinese and Americans could freely travel, trade, and live in either country?
(a) the Burlingame Treaty
(b) the Fourteenth Amendment
(c) the Nationality Act
(d) the queue tax

4. What culture is the character Maui from in "On Mortality Again"?
(a) African
(b) Polynesian
(c) American
(d) Chinese

5. Which anti-Chinese law comes first?
(a) Act to Amend an Act
(b) Chinese Exclusion Act
(c) The revised Burlingame Treaty
(d) Scott Act

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Uncle Bun accuse Father of doing?

3. To what does this simile refer: "Sap ran from its cuts like crying blind eyes"?

4. Why does Great Aunt get herself smuggled into Hong Kong?

5. Why is there a communal dining room at the Chinese village where Kingston's ancestors lived?

(see the answer key)

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