Chapter 1

Questions

1. What does the narrator remember at the beginning of the story?
2. What happened to the narrator’s grandfather thirty years ago?
3. Why does the narrator’s family refer to Hand Clap as a cousin?
4. Why is the narrator frightened to go to America?
5. How do the U.S. authorities try to trip Moon Shadow?

Answers

1. He remembers his boyhood with his mother in the Middle Kingdom.
2. He was lynched.
3. He shares the same family name as them.
4. He’s heard loads of creepy stories about cannibalism and torture in the Land of the Golden Mountain and remembers the demons banning over 20,000 people from returning to America, not to mention the people excluded from admittance to begin with.
5. They ask him tough questions about his family.