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This character was but on trial due to killing a local fisherman.
Kabuo Miyamoto
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Where do Songs of Gold Mountain take place? What were the conditions like there?
Angel Island immigration station Negative conditions- silly questions to make you fail; crowded unsanitary wooden barracks; families were split up; could only leave detainment room if you had to use the bathroom
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What is the setting?
Remote village at the summit of a mountain Phoenix of the Sky
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Who wrote "Water Names"?
Lan Samantha Chang
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In your opinion, what main character experienced the most hardships. Explain why.
Opinion Answers will vary
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Who is the man in China Men that is working on the railroad?
Ah Goong
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What type of working conditions are present in China Men? Who were the demons?
Answers will vary -Conditions: could get blown up from gun powder or dynamite; could fall out of wicker basket; freeze to death; could injure self with the hard labor they were completing -Demons were the bosses
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What happens to Luo's father?
Accused of sleeping with a nurse He is tortured until he admits to the crime, which he mostly likely did not commit
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True of False: Marlon K. Hom created Songs of Gold Mountain from his own mind.
False: He took these poems off the walls at the Angel Island Immigration Station ***Poems were written about the hardships they experienced
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Why is the seamstress's father treated like a king?
He is the only tailor, which makes him very respectable.
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Who is the character that pulls the girl into the water to his underwater kingdom?
The Water Ghost in "Water Names"
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What are the two themes of tankas?
Splendor of nature and passage of time
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How big was the town Yong Jing? What evidence explained this in the text?
Small -Could smell the food from anywhere in the city -Small- only had one street and a couple of shops
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What is one form of inspiration for Maxine Hong Kingston's writings?
Answers will vary Acceptable answers -her mother was an avid storyteller -she wrote based on her family's experiences
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What physical reaction did Michihiko Hachiya experience?
He was burnt from the bombing; clothes burned off
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Character who tells the story of the girl who wanted to join her underwater prince to her family members
The grandmother
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What startled the narrator in "Hiroshima Diaries"? What did the narrator think happened? What really happened?
-A bright flash of light startled the narrator -He thought it could be an explosive device or a passing trolley -It was really the bombing
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What is the first book that Four Eyes brings to the boys? Who is it written by?
By Balzac: Ursula Mirouet
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Which author wrote an autobiography about his experiences during the Hiroshima bombing?
Michihiko Hachiya
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What is a tanka? What is the format of a tanka?
Tanka is an unrhymed Japanese form of poetry Line 1: 5 syllables*** Line 2: 7 syllables Line 3: 5 syllables*** Line 4: 7 syllables Line 5: 7 Syllables Total: 31 syllables
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Who is the man who dies in Snow Falling on Cedars?
Carl Heine
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What is one similarity and one difference between China Men and "The Iron Road" film?
Answers will vary Possible answer -Similarity: Both deal with workers on the transcontinental railroad -Difference: The film does not focus as much on the Chinese; does not show the emotions the short story had; do not get a personal account of an individual
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Who is the preacher? Why is he in trouble?
Man who had been sweeping the streets of Yong Jing due to having a Latin Bible
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What was Lan Samantha Chang pursuing before coming a writer? Why did it take so long to become a writer?
Previously- premedical courses and courses in economics -Why: parents; did not know if she would do well
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What are two purposes of Asian American Literature? Name how each one is a purpose for a work we have read so far this year.
Answers will vary Purposes: -To remember the past -To give a voice to silent people (with an ignored and unknown history) -To correct stereotypes (of an exotic and foreign experience) -To claim America for the thousands of Americans whose Asian faces too frequently deny them a legitimate place (in this country of their birth.)