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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What happens that begins Father's most dismal time in "The American Father"?
2. What reason do the white miners give for the decision to drive out the China Men?
3. What does Say Goong call a "sky chicken"?
4. What does Ch'u Yuan decide to do once he accepts that he cannot return home?
5. How does Kingston's Father avoid the draft?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Kingston mean at the end of "Alaska China Men" when she writes, ". . . perhaps any China Man was China Joe"?
2. 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.
3. Explain the irony of the mandarins requesting more ships in the story the Filipino scholar tells in "On Listening."
4. 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.
5. What is the significance of the last line in "The Hundred-Year-Old Man"?
6. Describe the relationship between Father and the owner of the Gambling House.
7. 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.
8. 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)!"
9. Describe the experience of the AJA's (Americans of Japanese Ancestry) during World War II, using only details from Kingston's retelling of her memories and the stories she heard as a child.
10. What happens to Father after the Gambling House is closed permanently? How does Father recover?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Study the immigration laws currently on the books in the United States. Compare them to "The Laws" the author describes in that chapter. Verify the accuracy of the laws Kingston describes. Note that some of the laws address California immigration, and others were passed by the federal government. How have the laws changed since Kingston wrote this novel in 1977? Do you think the changes have been positive or negative? How do the modern laws affect different people?
Essay Topic 2
Kingston provides several examples of the use of the color red by Chinese. What does the color red symbolize for Chinese people? In what ways do Chinese people integrate the color red into their lives?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss how the tone and mood that Kingston creates in her writing change from when she first addresses her Father in chapter three, "Father from China" and when she speaks of him in Chapter 14, "The American Father." Describe Kingston's attitude toward her father in Chapter three. Tell when you think Kingston changes her attitude toward him. Use quotes from the text to support your conclusions about Kingston's attitude toward her Father.
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