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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Wild Man do when he ventures out of the Green Swamp?
(a) takes fruit and corn from farms
(b) robs farmers for food
(c) He doesn't ever leave the swamp.
(d) goes to a restaurant

2. What does Kingston realize about men at Great Uncle Kau's funeral?
(a) Men must carry the casket out of the demon mortuary.
(b) Men have feelings too.
(c) Men are afraid of death.
(d) Men grow very old before they die.

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

4. 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

5. What does Say Goong call a "sky chicken"?
(a) a rooster
(b) a fly
(c) a toad
(d) a horse

Short Answer Questions

1. How much time passes between the first and the second Driving Out in "Alaska China Men"?

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

3. What food product is Uncle Bun obsessed with when the reader first meets him?

4. What does Kingston notice about the Wild Man as shown in the photos of his capture appearing in the newspaper?

5. From whom do MaMa and Father have to keep their savings a secret?

Short Essay Questions

1. What evidence in "The Wild Man of the Green Swamp" is there that shows the Wild Man's ingenuity?

2. Explain why the Hundred-Year-Old Man's answer about how to stop the war in Vietnam is so simple.

3. What is the significance of Kingston's modern Auntie's marriage to I Fu?

4. Compare and contrast Uncle Bun's beliefs about the benefits of communism and his dreams of a Communist World and Father's political beliefs.

5. Analyze Kingston's narrative about Uncle Kau Goong and his elderly wife. Explain why Great Aunt goes to Hong Kong and then back to China. Describe Uncle Kau's response to Great Aunt's pleas to be together again. Students might suggest the importance of Kau's final words on the subject: "We belong here (America)!"

6. Retell the Filipino scholar's story about the Chinese first coming to the Philippines in search of gold. Be sure to include only the information that the scholar provides. Don't be distracted by the party-goers' interruptions.

7. Explain why members of the freighter's crew try to send their shipmate to China and describe the Wild Man's response at the airport.

8. Explain why the people that meet Li Sao realize too late that he is the last righteous human being. What do the people do to get Li Sao to return to Earth? What are the results of the people's attempts?

9. Create a dictionary using words from the chapter, "The Li Sao: An Elegy." Choose words that readers will need to have knowledge of in order to understand the story. Create a display using words that fit the theme of the folktale, such as phoenix, mourned, epic, elegy, lament, sorrow, estrangement, incorruptible, entwined, requiem, warmongers, etc.

10. How does Kingston give the reader information about the Communist Revolution and the later wars? Include details about her brother's experience in the Navy as a pacifist.

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