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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 is the name of the Dragon King of the Eastern Sea?

2. Why is a vertical panel a good choice for the picture of the Monkey King's journey to heaven?

3. What does Jin's Transformer change into?

4. What is the picture that demonstrates the Monkey King's "Invulnerability to Wounds" (57)?

5. What kind of spirit once haunted Flower-Fruit Mountain?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the Monkey King become king?

2. In what ways do the other students at Mayflower Elementary isolate Jin socially?

3. What is Chin-Kee's reaction to Melanie, and how does it make him seem both ridiculous and threatening?

4. What does Tze-Yo-Tzuh tell the Monkey King about being a monkey, and what is the Monkey King's response?

5. What happens when the Monkey King reports to the Dragon King?

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

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

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

9. What kind of toy does Jin love, and how did he develop his love for these toys?

10. How did Jin's parents meet?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay that makes and defends a claim about the story that Jin's mother tells him as they are moving to their new home, on pages 23-24. Be sure to offer textual evidence to support your ideas.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay that analyzes how both words and images are used to convey the characters' emotion in American Born Chinese. Support your ideas with evidence from the book.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay that analyzes Jin's friendship with Peter Garbinsky. What motivates each of them to become friends, what is the nature of their friendship, and what does this friendship demonstrate about Jin? Support your claims with textual evidence.

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