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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. Why do Jin's parents not buy him deodorant?

2. What does Steve set down on the table while he is looking through his book bag?

3. What is Danny's first teacher of the day irritated about?

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

5. What kind of monks does the beginning of Chapter 7 describe?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What do Danny and Steve talk about at lunchtime?

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

5. 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?

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

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

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

9. 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?

10. What prevents Jin from putting his arm around Amelia at the theater, and how does he solve that problem?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay that analyzes the use of different narrative voices in American Born Chinese. Support your ideas with evidence from the book.

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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