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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3: "ACT III: ETHNIC RECURRING".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the flashback in In "ACT II: INT. GOLDEN PALACE," what is the protagonist's mother studying?
(a) Real estate.
(b) English.
(c) Painting.
(d) Accounting.

2. Why do the other women shun The Hostess?
(a) She is not Chinese.
(b) She has quit the show.
(c) She often plays prostitutes.
(d) She does not respect her elders.

3. What surprises Turner on page 107 when Green says that the protagonist is "working with us. Impossible Crimes Unit"?
(a) It implies that the protagonist is their equal.
(b) Turner suspects that Green may have a romantic interest in the protagonist.
(c) It implies that the protagonist is an important or permanent part of their team.
(d) Turner did not realize that the protagonist was cooperating with them.

4. What brings the protagonist's first Special Guest Star role to an end?
(a) He is fired for flirting with Green.
(b) His character is shot and killed.
(c) He is fired for fighting with Turner.
(d) His character flees Chinatown.

5. In the page 13 description of the fatherly pride that the protagonist yearns to see, what do all of the capital letters indicate?
(a) The protagonist is almost desperate in his eagerness to please his father.
(b) The narrator is being sarcastic.
(c) The wording is an allusion.
(d) The emotion is a stereotype or cliché.

Short Answer Questions

1. As the protagonist is trying to get the bickering detectives to focus, what piece of information does he accidentally reveal?

2. What are the majority of the protagonist's earliest memories of his mother centered around?

3. What is a cheongsam?

4. In the beginning of "ACT III: ETHNIC RECURRING," what is the protagonist trying to accomplish with much of his dialogue?

5. What is the protagonist's father's real name?

(see the answer key)

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