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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 Jin spend his afternoon classes thinking about?

2. What is implied in the series of panels where one demon climbs on the other's shoulders?

3. Who helped Jin pick up the broken glass when he knocked over the test tubes?

4. In the conversation that Wei-Chen and Amelia have inside the storage room, what is Wei-Chen's attitude toward Jin?

5. What word is first used to describe Wong Lai-Tsao?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What are the three things that make the other legendary monks besides Wong Lai-Tsao special?

3. Why does Danny ask Steve for a copy of the game schedule, and how does Steve react?

4. 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?

5. When Jin tells Wei-Chen about his date with Amelia, what concern does he voice, and what is Wei-Chen's response?

6. What does Chin-Kee bring for lunch, and how do the other students react to it?

7. In Chapter 8, how does Jin end up doing something that betrays his friendship with Wei-Chen?

8. What advice did Jin's cousin Charlie give him about dating, and what happens to make Jin wonder if maybe Charlie was right?

9. What happens when Wong Lai-Tsao tries to do the things that make the other monks special?

10. What happens in each of Danny's classes when he brings Chin-Kee to school with him, and how does Danny react?

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

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 the importance of mentorship in American Born Chinese. Be sure to support your claims with evidence from the text.

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