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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Monkey King learn to turn into clones of himself?
(a) Rocks.
(b) His own hair.
(c) Other monkeys.
(d) Fruit and flowers.

2. Who is depicted struggling to carry all of Chin-Kee's luggage?
(a) A taxi driver.
(b) Chin-Kee.
(c) Danny.
(d) Danny's father.

3. What subject are Melanie and Danny studying?
(a) American history.
(b) Chemistry.
(c) Calculus.
(d) American literature.

4. What does the Monkey King eat while he is training underground?
(a) Bananas.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Peaches.
(d) Roots.

5. What does Chin-Kee want to do when he goes to school with Danny?
(a) Find himself an American girlfriend.
(b) Work on improving his English.
(c) Learn to play American football.
(d) Show American students how to do math.

Short Answer Questions

1. What large city did Jin live in for the first nine years of his life?

2. What does the Monkey King keep insisting is true about himself?

3. What mark of punctuation is used to show the Monkey King's emotion when he sees the long line?

4. How do the monkeys' faces look when the Monkey King announces that he is leaving for the evening?

5. What does Chin-Kee compare himself to when he is telling Danny how excited he is to be there?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the "old Chinese parable" that Jin's mother tells him while they are moving (23)?

2. What "exciting news" does Danny's mother have for him, and what is his reaction (46)?

3. What is similar about the day Jin is introduced to his new class and the day that Wei-Chen is introduced to his new class?

4. How did the Monkey King become king?

5. What things has the Monkey King studied and mastered?

6. What two things are Danny and Melanie talking about when Chapter 3 opens?

7. What plans does Chin-Kee have for the next day, and how do Danny's and his mother's reactions vary?

8. In what ways other than how he looks is Chin-Kee a stereotyped caricature of a Chinese person?

9. How does the Monkey King discover that there is a party happening in heaven?

10. What happens when the Monkey King escapes past the boundary of reality, and what does he later find out is true about this experience?

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