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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 Chin-Kee say that he wants Melanie to do for him?
2. What is Chin-Kee's relationship to Danny?
3. What word is repeated nine times at the bottom of the first panel of Chapter 3, on page 43?
4. Who is Suzy Nakamura?
5. What is the intended message of the page 32 illustrations of children playing and Jin sitting at a table?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. What jobs did Jin's parents have before they graduated, and what jobs did they have after they graduated?
3. What does Jin tell the herbalist's wife he wants to be when he grows up, and how does she respond?
4. What happens when the Monkey King reports to the Dragon King?
5. In what ways other than how he looks is Chin-Kee a stereotyped caricature of a Chinese person?
6. What happens when the Monkey King escapes past the boundary of reality, and what does he later find out is true about this experience?
7. What kind of toy does Jin love, and how did he develop his love for these toys?
8. What things has the Monkey King studied and mastered?
9. How does the Monkey King discover that there is a party happening in heaven?
10. What two things are Danny and Melanie talking about when Chapter 3 opens?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay that analyzes the use of panel layout to support meaning in one of the chapters of American Born Chinese. Support your ideas with evidence from the book.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay that analyzes the importance of mentorship in American Born Chinese. Be sure to support your claims with evidence from the text.
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