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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 Danny's response to the "joke" that Chin-Kee plays on Steve?

2. Wong Lai-Tsao helps vagrants every day. What is a vagrant?

3. Why does Wei-Chen go into the biology storage room after school?

4. What is the best description of Danny's reaction to Steve's offer to buy him a Coke after school?

5. How long does it take Wong Lai-Tsao to find the Monkey King?

Short Essay Questions

1. When Jin finally tells Wei-Chen about his crush on a classmate, what changes in Wei-Chen's life as a result of their conversation?

2. In the gym after school, what does Danny tell Steve about Chin-Kee?

3. What does Wong Lai-Tsao explain to the Monkey King about the seal that Tze-Yo-Tzuh put on the mountain?

4. Who is to accompany Wong Lai-Tsao on his trip, and where will they come from?

5. How does a change in Mr. Graham's classroom cause Wei-Chen and the girl that Jin likes to end up staying after school together?

6. What does Chin-Kee do while Steve is looking through his book bag, and why does the author include this strange incident?

7. What surprising revelation happens at the end of Chapter 8, and what causes this thing to happen?

8. When Suzy and Wei-Chen are teasing Jin after school, who comes by and makes a comment about them, and how does it change the group's mood?

9. How does the Monkey King's behavior contradict what he tells Wong Lai-Tsao about the demons?

10. What accidentally happens while Wei-Chen and Amelia are taking care of the animals after school, and how does this spur a change in Jin's life?

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 analyzes how gutter space is used to control pace in one chapter 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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