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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 4: "ACT IV: STRIVING IMMIGRANT".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Mini Boss offer Green and Turner as a bribe?
(a) Women.
(b) Information.
(c) Cash.
(d) Drugs.

2. What reason does a recruiter give Ming-Chen Wu for no one wanting to hire him?
(a) The Vietnam War has increased racism against people of Asian descent.
(b) He did not finish his doctorate.
(c) He does not have a foreign accent.
(d) His Taiwanese accent makes him hard to understand.

3. Under "Skills," on page 7, what kind of English is listed?
(a) Educated.
(b) Lower class.
(c) Accented.
(d) Broken.

4. What is a reasonable summary of the poem on page 6?
(a) Your reactions are what matters, not what happens to you.
(b) Sometimes your only choice is to build a life out of the scraps you are given.
(c) There are no small roles, only small actors.
(d) If you believe in yourself, you can do anything.

5. Where does the protagonist live?
(a) In an unnamed building in Chinatown, with his parents.
(b) In the basement of the Palace of Good Fortune Apartments.
(c) On the fourth floor of the Chinatown SRO Apartments.
(d) On the eighth floor of the Chinatown SRO Apartments.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the "terminal, ultimate, exalted position for any Asian working in this world" (12)?

2. What is the line that the protagonist finally delivers, on page 76, when his chance comes and all eyes are on him?

3. What job does Dorothy have when she lives in Alabama?

4. Who has played "Guy in a Soiled T-shirt" (9)?

5. What is a cheongsam?

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