The "Land of the Golden Mountain" most likely refers to . Ever since I can remember, I had wanted to know about the Land of the Golden Mountain, but my mother had never wanted to talk about it. All I knew was that a few months before I was born, my father had left our home in the Middle Kingdom, or China, as the white demons call it, and traveled over the sea to work in the demon land. There was plenty of money to be made among the demons, but it was also dangerous. My own grandfather had been lynched about thirty years before by a mob of white demons almost the moment he had set foot on their shores. Answer choices for the above question A. Anywhere across an ocean B. America C. Japan D. China

The correct answer is B. America

Explanation:

In this excerpt, the narrator describes the Land of the Golden Mountain was across the ocean "and traveled over the sea to work in the demon land". Moreover, the narrator explained the father lived in China, this suggests the Golden Mountains are in a different country from Asia. Moreover, the term "Golden Mountain" and the idea "There was plenty of money" suggests this location is in California (the United States, America) and the mountains are "golden" because of the gold rush in this area during the mid-nineteenth century. According to this term refers to America.

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nothing certain is known about what happened, but it seems that the country declined gradually, perhaps due to bad government, or, more likely, due to a series of bad harvests, which resulted in widespread and recurrent famine.