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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Bonnie Tsui say represents "the ambiguous Asian everywhere" (iv)?
(a) Chinatown.
(b) Orientalism.
(c) Kung Fu.
(d) Chinese food.

2. 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 figure out what the plot of the show is.
(c) He is trying to defend his community.
(d) He is trying to flirt with Green.

3. What do the detectives learn that sends them looking for the protagonist's father?
(a) Ming-Chen Wu was the last person to see the dead man alive.
(b) Ming-Chen Wu knows where the illegal casino is.
(c) Ming-Chen Wu was once Sifu, the kung fu master.
(d) Ming-Chen Wu owns the gun that killed Dead Asian Guy.

4. What words could be said to summarize the "Repertoire" listed on page 7?
(a) Bitter, demanding.
(b) Ambiguous, vague.
(c) Limited, stereotypical.
(d) Ambitious, unrealistic.

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

6. Who is the protagonist of Interior Chinatown?
(a) Charles.
(b) Sifu.
(c) Choy.
(d) Willis.

7. In the opening of "ACT III: ETHNIC RECURRING," what stereotype about Chinese cultural values does the dialogue of Black and White fixate on?
(a) Obedience to one's parents means everything.
(b) The community means everything.
(c) Honor means everything.
(d) Educational achievement means everything.

8. What is the stated purpose of the protagonist's visits to his father?
(a) Practicing lines.
(b) Kung fu lessons.
(c) Delivering medications.
(d) Cleaning his father's home.

9. On page 56, how does his mother explain the promise she extracts from the protagonist?
(a) She wants him to "try harder."
(b) She wants him to "be a better son."
(c) She wants him to "be attentive."
(d) She wants him to "be more."

10. In the resume on page 7, what kind of "face" is listed under "Skills"?
(a) Face of Polite Confusion.
(b) Face of Injured Honor.
(c) Face of Great Shame.
(d) Face of Inscrutable Wisdom.

11. 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 an important or permanent part of their team.
(b) It implies that the protagonist is their equal.
(c) Turner suspects that Green may have a romantic interest in the protagonist.
(d) Turner did not realize that the protagonist was cooperating with them.

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

13. In "ACT II: INT. GOLDEN PALACE," what does the protagonist find the other men doing outside his door?
(a) Playing cards.
(b) Practicing kung fu.
(c) Rehearsing a scene.
(d) Rolling dice.

14. Where does the protagonist's mother live?
(a) Down the hall from his father.
(b) With his father.
(c) In another city's Chinatown.
(d) With him.

15. From the discussion of lighting on page 11, what can reasonably be inferred?
(a) The protagonist is making excuses for being a bad actor.
(b) The show is a satire of modern race relations.
(c) The lighting crew is prejudiced against Asians.
(d) The show is named after its two main characters' races.

Short Answer Questions

1. What role does Fatty Choy play in the gambling club?

2. What is "Jade Palace"?

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

4. What is "drunken monkey" (13)?

5. In "ACT II: INT. GOLDEN PALACE," what happens when the building residents get fed up with their living conditions?

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