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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Hundred-Year-Old Man.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What rule do the "white demons" enforce that is problematic for great grandfather Bak Goong while he is working in the sugar cane fields?
(a) singing
(b) counting
(c) working
(d) silence

2. How old is Lo Bun Sun when he returns to China and gets married?
(a) sixty-years-old
(b) forty-five-years-old
(c) fifty-years-old
(d) one-hundred-years-old

3. Who is Guan Goong?
(a) a hero from China's revolution
(b) an actor in a play in Sacramento
(c) the God of War and Literature
(d) one of Kingston's grandfathers

4. What action does Maui take that tells the reader where Hina sleeps?
(a) Maui dives into the ocean.
(b) Maui brought fire to Earth.
(c) Maui pushes the sky higher.
(d) Maui pulled the land up out of the ocean.

5. For whom do the Juneau citizens hold the largest funeral Alaska ever sees?
(a) President of the Treadwell Mining Company
(b) Captain Carroll
(c) China Joe
(d) Citizenship Judge

Short Answer Questions

1. Which congressional act in 1882 bans Chinese laborers from entering the U.S. for ten years?

2. What does Lo Sun Bun's father tell him before Lo heads out to sea?

3. Which character from Kingston's folktales in China Men suffers the most?

4. How does Sao rid himself of his mother's ghost?

5. How does the stranger respond to the children's mistake?

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