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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 drives the Wild Man to hysterics while he is in the jail?
(a) The Border Patrol is sending him back.
(b) severe homesickness
(c) being locked up for three days straight
(d) not being able to speak with the authorities

2. How is brother, returning from Vietnam, greeted when he walks from the bus station to his parents' home in Stockton?
(a) No one is home.
(b) There is a huge surprise party held in his honor.
(c) A party is just ending.
(d) His mother forces him to eat so he will gain some weight.

3. After Captain Carroll rescues the China Men from being adrift in the sea, where do the China Men ask the Captain to take them?
(a) China
(b) Cuba
(c) California
(d) Douglas Island

4. What do the women do to help stir the cool female winds inside Tang's body?
(a) make Tang wash the bandages used to bind his feet
(b) unwrap the bindings from Tang's feet
(c) make Tang sit in the rain and wind
(d) giveTang tea with white chrysanthemums

5. Who is Chan Moong Gut in "The Great Grandfather of the Sandalwood Mountains"?
(a) a magical character in Bak Goong's tall tales
(b) the ghost of Bak Goong's dead father
(c) the other great grandfather that worked in the Sandalwood Mountains
(d) the young man who left his village for the Imperial Examinations

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does Kingston refer with the metaphor "the living night"?

2. What is the meaning of the word hastening in the opening lines of "On Fathers"?

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

4. What does it finally take to capture the Wild Man of the Green Swamp?

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

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