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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of poem does Ch'u Yuan write before he drowns?
(a) a poem of questions with no answers
(b) a pourqois poem
(c) a haiku
(d) an epic tale told in poetic form

2. How much time passes between the first and the second Driving Out in "Alaska China Men"?
(a) one year
(b) eight days
(c) two years
(d) one month

3. What does it finally take to capture the Wild Man of the Green Swamp?
(a) a sophisticated trap set in the swamp
(b) a farmer hold him at gunpoint until the authorities arrive
(c) tracking dogs and hunters with guns
(d) an air and land search by a posse

4. Why is Kingston confused about the story of the gold needle in a mountain in the Philippines?
(a) Kingston cannot understand the scholar's accent.
(b) Kingston is confused because she thought the Chinese only went to Hawai'i and California.
(c) Kingston doesn't know whether the Filipino king tricked the mandarins or not.
(d) Kingston doesn't hear the Filipino clearly, because others were speaking over him.

5. To what city does the Filipino king send the mandarins to begin their search for the golden needle?
(a) Mexico City
(b) Cabit
(c) The City of Gold
(d) Bay of Manila

6. What feature of the Wild Man that Kingston saw as a child is distinctly different from the Wild Man caught in 1975?
(a) The Wild Man Kingston saw was never captured.
(b) The Wild Man Kingston saw was naked.
(c) The Wild Man Kingston saw was dirty.
(d) The Wild Man Kingston saw was a black man.

7. What food product is Uncle Bun obsessed with when the reader first meets him?
(a) milk
(b) eggs
(c) wheat germ
(d) coconuts

8. How do readers know that the Hundred-Year-Old Man took a job in Hawai'i that paid for passage and offered steady pay, just the same as Kingston's great grandfather?
(a) Both the Hundred-Year-Old Man and great grandfather enjoyed watching the small sugarcane plants grow, therefore the two men must have worked at the same time.
(b) The old man sees the King and Prince of the Hawai'ian Islands who offer him work, just as in the great grandfather's story.
(c) The details of the old man's experiences with working to clear land, going to town on pay day, and how he spent his money are the same as in the story told about Kingston's great grandfather.
(d) The old man has only left the island two times in his life to go to other Hawai'ian Islands, same as great grandfather who decides to remain in Hawai'i and not return to China.

9. What symbolizes to the Filipino king that the mandarin is of a higher social class than other Chinese already living there?
(a) The mandarins have secret knowledge of gold in the mountains.
(b) The mandarin ships are seaworthy.
(c) The mandarins ride in ivory and gold chairs.
(d) The mandarins have a Chinese in chains.

10. What do Kingston's parents call the Chinese American traditionalists in California?
(a) wheat germ
(b) demon workers
(c) superstitious, backward peasants
(d) sky chickens

11. What does the blind fortune teller predict will happen to Kingston's San Francisco Aunt over her lifetime?
(a) Aunt will gain and lose fortunes many times.
(b) Aunt will marry three times.
(c) Aunt will meet her husband in Hong Kong.
(d) Aunt will own a shoe store throughout her life.

12. What does Ch'u Yuan decide to do once he accepts that he cannot return home?
(a) Ch'u Yuan starts the tradition of wrapping rice in leaves once every year
(b) Ch'u Yuan tells the river all of his tales.
(c) Ch'u Yuan prays for with the corrupt world.
(d) Ch'u Yuan jumps in the river and drowns.

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

14. Who travels to Alaska during the Driving Out to help end the violence?
(a) The Calvary
(b) President of the United States
(c) Alaska's governor
(d) Other company strikers from around the state

15. How does Sing Kay Ng get his name?
(a) Lo Bun Sun names him Sing Kay Ng because the man has a limp.
(b) Sing Kay Ng gets his Chinese name from his Chinese mother.
(c) Sing Kay Ng makes up his own name after he learns Chinese from Lo Bun Sun.
(d) Lo Bun Sun names him Sing Kay Ng because it means fleeing man.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was Ch'u Yuan banished from the Center and from the Royal Court?

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

3. Why does Sao Elder Brother become known as Mad Sao?

4. In the first telling of the Driving Out of Alaska, who relocates the China Men?

5. When the fish-and-game wardens and sheriff deputies use dogs to search for the Wild Man, why is their search so short?

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