The Path to Paper Son

How can you tell that "The Path to Paper Son" is an informational text?

• a. The author includes magic and talking animals.

• b. The author is in the future, in space.

• c. The author included a crime to solve.

• d. The author included facts about actual events and examples.

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What happened to Share Kim's "twin brother" after the officials questioned him?

• a. He went to a party to celebrate.

• b. He was deported back to China where he died 2 years later.

• c. He went to live with Share Kim's family in the U.S.

• d. He had a change of heart and went back to China.

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Share Kim's parents never talked about the experience of immigrating because...

• a. they were embarrassed.

• b. they would start talking about it and never stop.

• c. they were used to talking about it.

• d. it was a painful experience for them.

Share Kim's family faced a lot of questions from immigration authorities in the U.S.

• True

• False

The term "paper son" came from a son turning into paper.

• True

• False

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1. Throughout the text, the author suggests that Chinese workers who came to the United States-

• came to buy land.

• would never return home.

• lived a life of luxury.

• looked for ways to bring their wives, children, and sometimes other children that were not their own.

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The author organizes the information in paragraphs 2 - 4 by-

• comparing and contrasting ideas.

• explaining a cause and effect situation.

• by persuading the reader to visit China.

• expressing an idea.

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The 1906 earthquake and fire are important to the selection because-

• it shows that people were able to rebuild San Francisco.

• with records destroyed, some Chinese could claim to be born in San Francisco, and now had the opportunity to claim that they had a wife and many sons in China.

• it explains why people moved back East.

• it killed many people.

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The reader can conclude that Louie Share Kim-

• disliked living with his real parents.

• had no idea why he was being sent to America.

• was probably scared to travel alone across the Pacific Ocean.

• didn't know he was a paper son.

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On page 25, what is the key idea of paragraph 6.

• Share Kim found out he had another son.

• Share Kim did not have a paper son.

• Share Kim's wife did not want to bring their children to America.

• It was now Share Kim's opportunity to bring a paper son.

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