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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 happens that begins Father's most dismal time in "The American Father"?
(a) The Gambling house is raided and closed permanently.
(b) The children get out of control, and Father beats his daughter with a hangar.
(c) MaMa has an accident at the cannery and dies.
(d) MaMa shames him into taking a low-wage laborer job.

2. Which two islands does Kingston suggest her father had gone to before entering America?
(a) Angel Island and Ellis Island
(b) Angel Island and Cuba
(c) Ellis Island and Cuba
(d) Hawaii and Cuba

3. What does Lo Bun Sun call the two shelters he builds on the island?
(a) caves
(b) shelters
(c) castles
(d) mansions

4. How does the stranger respond to the children's mistake?
(a) He gets angry and yells at Mother.
(b) He is speechless and ignores them altogether.
(c) He laughs and tells them they made a mistake.
(d) He swats the children away from him as if they were flies.

5. What does the Wild Man do when he ventures out of the Green Swamp?
(a) takes fruit and corn from farms
(b) robs farmers for food
(c) goes to a restaurant
(d) He doesn't ever leave the swamp.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which details from the text imply that Father is a successful business man?

2. How does Sing Kay Ng get his name?

3. What is supposedly the cause of the "Mongolian spot" on some Chinese babies?

4. How were the Indians in Alaska treated by the "gold seeking" miners?

5. What word best describes the meaning of Ch'u Yuan's name?

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