Questions:
Chapter One
1.Why doesn’t Donald Duk like his name? Why does he admire Fred Astaire so much?
2.What does the history book written by a lecturer at Berkeley say about Chinese? How do these words bother Donald Duk?
3.How does King Duk help Donald deal with the gang kids in Chinatown?
4.Why doesn’t Donald Duk like the Chinese New Year?
Chapter Fourteen
1.What are Donald Duk and Arnold Azalea looking for in the library?What do they find?
2.What does King Duk say about the history of Chinese building railways being absent from mainstream history books? Whose mission do you think it is to record such history?
Chapter Fifteen
1.How does King Duk explain about the mandate of heaven in ancient China?
2.What do you think about Fred Astaire not knowing his real name?Of his real name and his stage name, which one is truer to him?
3.Why did the Chinese laborers cut their names on the last crosstie?What happened to that crosstie? How did the Chinese fight for their last crosstie?
4.How did the Central Pacific Railroad officials try to keep the Chinese away from the Last Spike Ceremony?
5.From this chapter, how do you understand that history is never only history of but history for?
Chapter Fifteen
1.Why doesn’t Donald Duk want to go to school?
2.How do Donald and Arnold challenge Mr.Meanwright in class about Chinese being noncompetitive and passive?