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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is the protagonist awake so late on most nights?
(a) The building is too cold to sleep in.
(b) He has to wait in a long line to take a shower.
(c) He is too hungry to fall asleep.
(d) His thoughts make it difficult for him to sleep.

2. In the flashback in In "ACT II: INT. GOLDEN PALACE," what is special about Friday nights?
(a) Playing cards with the neighbors.
(b) Watching kung fu movies.
(c) Parties in the apartment building.
(d) Eating home-cooked food.

3. In the beginning of "ACT III: ETHNIC RECURRING," what is the protagonist trying to accomplish with much of his dialogue?
(a) He is trying to expand his own role on the show.
(b) He is trying to defend his community.
(c) He is trying to figure out what the plot of the show is.
(d) He is trying to flirt with Green.

4. When the novel opens, what role does the protagonist play?
(a) Silent Henchman.
(b) Dead Asian Man.
(c) Background Oriental Male.
(d) Oriental Guy Making a Weird Face.

5. What is the "Floating Latina"?
(a) A Latina actress who takes different Latina roles in different episodes.
(b) A Latina actress whose character is found drowned.
(c) A Latina actress who is sometimes featured in the background of posters.
(d) A Latina actress with a peculiar way of walking across the set.

6. What does the protagonist know about the dangerous-looking people in the casino?
(a) They do not have very good kung fu skills.
(b) They are mostly fry-cooks and waiters.
(c) They are all A-students.
(d) They are all very religious.

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

8. What is so special about Older Brother?
(a) He uses his money to take care of everyone in Chinatown who is in need.
(b) He never changes anything about himself to please non-Asian audiences.
(c) He is the perfect blend of authenticity and assimilation.
(d) He is the head of the most powerful Asian gang in Chinatown.

9. 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 narrator is being sarcastic.
(b) The emotion is a stereotype or cliché.
(c) The wording is an allusion.
(d) The protagonist is almost desperate in his eagerness to please his father.

10. What is the protagonist's father's real name?
(a) Sifu.
(b) Willis.
(c) Ming.
(d) Choy.

11. Why does the protagonist finally step into the spotlight during the filming of Black and White?
(a) He is afraid that this time the officers will really shoot the Old Asian Man.
(b) He cannot stand that his father seems to have accepted his role as a passive object.
(c) He is genuinely concerned that the Old Asian Man might get fired for not speaking English.
(d) He can no longer put up with the casually racist jokes on the set.

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

13. How did the "Emperor" get his name?
(a) He played an emperor in a commercial for frozen dinners.
(b) He is the head of a Chinese gang.
(c) He played a Ming Dynasty emperor in a movie about Chinese history.
(d) He is the man in charge of the apartment building where the protagonist lives.

14. As the protagonist is trying to get the bickering detectives to focus, what piece of information does he accidentally reveal?
(a) Older Brother is missing.
(b) Ming Chen-Wu is his father.
(c) Fatty Choy is in a gang.
(d) There is an underground casino in Chinatown.

15. What is the line that the protagonist finally delivers, on page 76, when his chance comes and all eyes are on him?
(a) "Okay. I help you."
(b) "I am an undercover detective."
(c) "Leave the Old Man alone."
(d) "I know kung fu."

Short Answer Questions

1. What stereotypical musical sound does Black and White use?

2. Why do the other women shun The Hostess?

3. Where does the protagonist's mother live?

4. Why does Young Fong get cast in villain roles?

5. Where does the protagonist live?

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