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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Popo say Wittman's parent abandoned her like?

2. What is the title of Wittman's play?

3. What do Lance and the Yale poet mix their Asian accents with?

4. Why can Tasa not call in sick to work?

5. What is Popo walking without?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Wittman get himself and Tasa thrown out of the restaurant?

2. What does Wittman say to his mother on the phone?

3. Why do the Chinese not consider barbarians as ugly?

4. Why does Wittman not like Siew Loong, Little Dragon?

5. What does Wittman explain to the elderly Chinese woman?

6. What does Zeppelin say has happened to Popo?

7. What is Wittman's new play about?

8. What references does Wittman make to popular culture in Chapter 7?

9. What does the elderly Chinese woman teach Wittman?

10. Why does Mr. Sanchez think that Wittman's English is not as good as he thinks it is?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The author writes the novel in the third person. Why do you think the author chose to write the story in the third person? How do you think the meaning of the story would change if the author wrote it in the first person?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the author's life. In what way are her life and personality reflected in the book? How does she use the novel to express her views?

Essay Topic 3

Aside from the main character examine the way the author uses the other characters in the book. When does he introduce and take them away from the story? What effect does it have on the story?

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