ICS24/ELIT 24 Review - Question from Quizzes 1-5
Quiz 1, January 13, 2010
1. In what state did Yang's immediate family settle?
2. Where did Yang's grandmother live?
3. Name two kinds of government assistance Yang's family received.
4. Who was the ghost in the section 8 house?
5. What are the two places referred to by “Lusong”?
Quiz 2, January 20, 2010
1. Within ten years, what was the age difference between Yang’s paternal grandmother and grandfather?
2. Who conducted the funeral ceremonies for Yang’s grandmother in Minnesota?
3. In her journey, where was Yang’s grandmother supposed to go after leaving the US but before returning to Laos?
4. Yang’s grandmother had ten children—how many survived?
5. About how many (within 50) grandchildren did Yang’s grandmother have?
Quiz 3, February 1, 2010
1. What does the following series in “Legends from Camp” refer to: “contractors, carpenters, plumbers, electricians and architects, sewage engineers, and all the untold thousands who provided the materials, decisions, energy, and transportation”?
2. Name two US states where internment camps were located.
3. What was the ethnicity of Pete’s common-law wife?
4. What was the ethnicity of the only non-white farmer Allos works for in the selection?
5. What were Allos and Macario doing in the house of the movie director?
Quiz 4, February 3, 2010
1. What war does this passage refer to: “more than 3 million civilian casualties, decimation of the peninsula's physical infrastructure and natural environment, 10 million people separated from their families with limited prospects for reunion over a half century later, not to mention the national division of a people with two millenia of shared history and culture”?
2. Name the “they” and the “we” in this passage: “You remember I told you when we first got there, they were real angry with us? They said nobody after the war helped us. Every building was bombed. We got goose bumps, you know. So I think it was a good education. But a lot of people complained.”
3. In 1998 5,000 people gathered at 'Iolani Palace to mark the 100th anniversary of what event?
4. What is “a pear not a pear”?
5. The sentence “We apologize” appears twice in Haunani-Kay Trask's poem “Apologies.” Who is apologizing to whom for what?
Quiz 5, February 8, 2010
1. Within six years, when was Stonewall?
2. What is Daniel Tsang's ethnicity?
3. Which of these five elements is most prevalent in Thuy's imagery: Air, Wood, Metal, Fire, Water
4. Complete this sentence: “VIETNAM IS NOT A ____________”
5. Complete this sentence: “WE'RE ASIANS _____________ AND PROUD”