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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Uncle Bun accuse Father of doing?
(a) poisoning his food
(b) wasting money
(c) stealing his money
(d) working too hard

2. What does Lo Sun Bun's father tell him before Lo heads out to sea?
(a) I disown you as my son.
(b) Please return home soon.
(c) Heaven will not bless you.
(d) I wish you good and safe travel my son.

3. What does Kingston hear from her schoolmates that makes her long to be normal?
(a) The other children speak of family members saying, "I love you."
(b) Kingston must walk home with her huge uncle everyday.
(c) Children speak of being spanked and being kissed goodnight
(d) Kingston's schoolmates make fun of her clothes.

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

5. What is Ch'u Yuan looking for as he seeks another like him in the world?
(a) a phoenix dispossessed
(b) a lost prince trying to spread the word of peace
(c) an arrogant, all-knowing citizen
(d) an uncorrupted human being

6. Where do the mandarins seeking gold land their ship?
(a) Spain
(b) California
(c) Bay of Manila
(d) Mexico

7. What does the Hundred-Year-Old man do to rest during his trips to town early in his time in Hawaii?
(a) spends money on women
(b) smokes cigars
(c) smokes opium
(d) gambles

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

9. How does Sao rid himself of his mother's ghost?
(a) Sao doesn't ever rid himself of the criticizing ghost and he goes mad, becoming known as Mad Sao.
(b) Sao takes a cruise boat back to China and performs the traditional funeral rituals at her graveside.
(c) Sao locks her in the dark shed at the grandfathers' old house.
(d) Sao repeatedly demands that his Mother return home to China, and her ghost disappears.

10. What tradition does Mad Sao perform at his mother's graveside that the Kingston family does not do after Uncle Kau's funeral?
(a) makes a fire and jump over it
(b) pours liquor into the groun
(c) carries a casket with the body in it
(d) tosses fake money around

11. Which act shows that the mandarins are confident that they will find gold?
(a) The mandarins sail further and further inland.
(b) The Chinese workers have babies and start families here.
(c) The mandarins agree to build roads and railroads for the Filipino king.
(d) The mandarins ask for more ships to carry all the gold.

12. What personal theory does Kingston recall testing when she was child?
(a) Kingston believes that she can tell lies and never get caught.
(b) Kingston thought boys liked to be kicked.
(c) Kingston believes that her father worked secretly for the Communist Party.
(d) Kingston believes that boys do not feel pain.

13. What does Kingston notice about the Wild Man as shown in the photos of his capture appearing in the newspaper?
(a) The men in cowboy hats that escorted him out of the swamp appeared to have given quite a fight against the Wild Man.
(b) The Wild Man was neat and clean and did not act wild or fight his captors.
(c) The Wild Man was crying as his captors led him out of the swamp.
(d) The Wild Man's hair and beard were extremely long, because he was unable to groom himself in the swamp.

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

15. What does the Wild Man do on the night he learns that the Border Patrol is sending him back?
(a) He commits suicide by hanging himself with his belt.
(b) He beats the guards with his belt at the first opportunity.
(c) He pretends he is too sick to travel.
(d) He escapes the jail and is never seen again.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what city does the Filipino king send the mandarins to begin their search for the golden needle?

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

3. What two goals does Father finally reach by the end of "The American Father"?

4. What amount of pay is given to the Chinese workers in Hawaii for working in the cane fields?

5. How does the game officer that first spots the Wild Man in the Green Swamp know that what he sees is not a bear?

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