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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. How does Kingston's Father avoid the draft?
(a) The doctors say he is too fat.
(b) The doctors find ink in his blood.
(c) The doctors say Father was too skinny.
(d) The Chinese American landlord pulls strings to get Father released.

2. What kind of business does Father buy?
(a) a laundry
(b) a tobacco shop
(c) a gambling house
(d) a barbershop

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

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

5. How were the Indians in Alaska treated by the "gold seeking" miners?
(a) Some are tortured and murdered in public.
(b) They are welcomed as extra labor.
(c) They are kept as slaves by white demons.
(d) They are driven out at gunpoint.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Hundred-Year-Old Man say he carried with him from China to Hawai'i?

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

3. For whom do the Juneau citizens hold the largest funeral Alaska ever sees?

4. Which of the following is not something Sao does at his mother's grave?

5. What do people in Alaska do to track events in their lives and their community?

Short Essay Questions

1. Summarize Kingston's childhood account of seeing a "Wild Man" every day when she and her sister walked to school.

2. Why does the author suggest that instead of the Driving Out in Alaska taking place twice that it could be the same story but with the dates mixed up?

3. 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?

4. What happens to Father after the Gambling House is closed permanently? How does Father recover?

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

6. Describe the relationship between Lo Bun Sun and Sing Kay Ng.

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

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

9. What is the significance of the last line in "The Hundred-Year-Old Man"?

10. What does Kingston mean at the end of "Alaska China Men" when she writes, ". . . perhaps any China Man was China Joe"?

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