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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 the story say the Monkey King was "born of" (9)?
2. What does the Monkey King eat while he is training underground?
3. What physical feature of Melanie's does Chin-Kee comment on twice?
4. What kind of spirit once haunted Flower-Fruit Mountain?
5. What is the probable purpose of Jin's mother's story about the mother and son long ago in China?
Short Essay Questions
1. How did Jin's parents meet?
2. What two things are Danny and Melanie talking about when Chapter 3 opens?
3. In what ways do the other students at Mayflower Elementary isolate Jin socially?
4. What is Chin-Kee's reaction to Melanie, and how does it make him seem both ridiculous and threatening?
5. In Chapter 4, what message does the Monkey King receive from heaven, and how does he respond?
6. In what ways other than how he looks is Chin-Kee a stereotyped caricature of a Chinese person?
7. What does Tze-Yo-Tzuh tell the Monkey King about his power, and what is the Monkey King's response?
8. How did the Monkey King become king?
9. What plans does Chin-Kee have for the next day, and how do Danny's and his mother's reactions vary?
10. What things has the Monkey King studied and mastered?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay in which you analyze the Monkey King's choices when he appears as Chin-Kee. Why does he take the form he takes, and why does he behave as he does? 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 how both words and images are used to convey the characters' emotion in American Born Chinese. Support your ideas with evidence from the book.
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