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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What were the Chinese wives most likely afraid of when their husbands left for Gold Mountain?
(a) that their husbands would return broke and broken
(b) that their husbands would settle in America with new wives
(c) that their husbands might bring back a new wife
(d) that their husbands will get harmed by bandits while still in China

2. Why does Kingston grow up thinking her Father hates girls and women?
(a) Father wakes up screaming from nightmares at night.
(b) Father would punish Kingston and her siblings by not speaking to them.
(c) Father had a bad experience with his own mother that Kingston doesn't understand.
(d) Kingston has memories of her father cursing about gypsies that swindled him.

3. Which best describes the author when she sends money to her cousin in China?
(a) an adult in California
(b) an adult in China
(c) a child in China
(d) a child in California

4. What metaphor does Tang use to compare his bandages hanging to dry?
(a) streamers that drooped and draped wall to wall
(b) like underwear
(c) gathered his toes over and under another
(d) like a moth's wings

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

6. What is Tang Ao doing when he meets the Queen?
(a) putting jade studs into his ears
(b) serving a meal to the Queen's court
(c) playing an instrument
(d) having a meal with the queen's court

7. How many fortunes does Tu Tzu-chun spend?
(a) three
(b) none
(c) two
(d) one

8. Why is there a communal dining room at the Chinese village where Kingston's ancestors lived?
(a) All the villagers are prisoners of war.
(b) The Communists serve food to villagers in large dining halls
(c) All the villagers' homes are destroyed by bombs.
(d) It is a traditional way of sharing meals in Chinese villages.

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

10. How many years, according to Ah Goong, does it take to complete the railroad?
(a) ten years
(b) twenty years
(c) two years
(d) six years

11. What is the result of the 1952 Immigration and Nationality Act?
(a) It allowed merchant wives to enter the country.
(b) It distributed 18,000 visas that had not been used.
(c) It allowed thousands of Hong Kong parolees to enter the U.S.
(d) It restricted immigration into the United States.

12. What does a Chinese bride do for three nights before she marries?
(a) She listens to the prayers of women in the village.
(b) She hides from her groom-to-be and his family.
(c) She prepares three thousand wedding cakes.
(d) She sits behind bed curtains to sing and weep.

13. Which details from the text imply that Father is a successful business man?
(a) He wears a coat with tobacco smell.
(b) He wears two-hundred dollar suits and good leather shoes with wingtips.
(c) He continues his walk down our street.
(d) He is tall and thin.

14. Why is Maui capable of dying when other gods are immortal?
(a) Maui is a human with superhuman powers.
(b) Maui can be reincarnated as many times as he wants.
(c) Maui is vulnerable to disgrace and embarrassment among other living creatures on Earth.
(d) Maui is only a demigod, or partially mortal, in the Polynesian culture.

15. What did the Displaced Persons Act passed in 1948 offer Chinese immigrants?
(a) between 1948-1954, ethnic Chinese could apply for citizenship.
(b) Homes for Chinese immigrants are given to those who are homeles
(c) Special Citizenship Judges are appointed to get individual private bills passed for a price.
(d) The act allows Chinese people to bring their close family members to the U.S.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ah Goong, BaBa's father, do with BaBa that horrifies the family?

2. How do Ed's partners swindle him out of the business?

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

4. Who are the children referring to when they call out, "BaBa!"?

5. Which is an example from the text of sensory details?

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