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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. Where is Danny's father at the beginning of Chapter 3?

2. What famous Chinese philosopher does Chin-Kee make a reference to?

3. What physical feature of Melanie's does Chin-Kee comment on twice?

4. What traditional Chinese object does the herbalist's wife use?

5. What do the monkeys notice about the Monkey King when he comes out of his underground chamber?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the Monkey King think he should be allowed into the party, and why does the guard refuse to let him in?

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

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

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

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

6. What does Jin tell the herbalist's wife he wants to be when he grows up, and how does she respond?

7. What jobs did Jin's parents have before they graduated, and what jobs did they have after they graduated?

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

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

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 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.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Write an essay in which you divide and classify the stages of the Monkey King's character development in American Born Chinese. You might have as few as three stages, or you might see several more than this--you decide what the phases of change in his character are. Support your ideas with evidence from the text.

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