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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 do the monkeys notice about the Monkey King when he comes out of his underground chamber?
2. What does the Monkey King keep insisting is true about himself?
3. What is it implied is about to happen between Danny and Melanie when Danny's mother interrupts them?
4. What does Jin's Transformer change into?
5. What physical feature of Melanie's does Chin-Kee comment on twice?
Short Essay Questions
1. What jobs did Jin's parents have before they graduated, and what jobs did they have after they graduated?
2. In what ways do the other students at Mayflower Elementary isolate Jin socially?
3. What is the "old Chinese parable" that Jin's mother tells him while they are moving (23)?
4. How does the reader know as soon as Chin-Kee enters the room that he is meant to be the object of ridicule?
5. What happens when the Monkey King is refused entrance to the party?
6. After the Monkey King beats many of them up, who do the gods and goddesses ask for help, and what do they want them to do?
7. What two things does the Monkey King do as a result of his embarrassment in heaven?
8. What kind of toy does Jin love, and how did he develop his love for these toys?
9. What does Tze-Yo-Tzuh tell the Monkey King about being a monkey, and what is the Monkey King's response?
10. Why does the Monkey King think he should be allowed into the party, and why does the guard refuse to let him in?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay that analyzes how clothing is used to characterize people (and monkeys) in American Born Chinese. Support your ideas with evidence from the book.
Essay Topic 2
In American Born Chinese, Wong Lai-Tsao undertakes his Journey to the West to visit the Christ Child--but this is not the purpose of Tang Sanzang's journey in Journey to the West. Write an essay that makes and defends a claim about why Gene Luen Yang made this change. Support your ideas with textual evidence, and be sure to cite outside sources in MLA format.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay that analyzes how gutter space is used to control pace in one chapter of American Born Chinese. Support your ideas with evidence from the book.
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