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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 with a peculiar way of walking across the set.
(d) A Latina actress who is sometimes featured in the background of posters.

2. As the protagonist's father listens to the protagonist delivering his lines, why does he start to look disappointed?
(a) The protagonist has lines full of Chinese stereotypes.
(b) The protagonist turns out to be a terrible actor.
(c) The protagonist is copying a speech that Older Brother once gave.
(d) The protagonist is speaking in broken English.

3. Why does Sifu sit in the dark?
(a) He is going blind.
(b) He does not believe in modern conveniences.
(c) To meditate.
(d) He cannot afford electricity.

4. How do the protagonist's friends and neighbors react when he appears in the kitchen of the Golden Palace?
(a) They cheer for him and the director has to cut and restart the scene.
(b) They are angry that he is cooperating with outsiders.
(c) They are both proud of him and envious of him.
(d) They ignore him completely.

5. When the protagonist first tells his father that he is working with Green and Turner, how does his father react?
(a) He is angry.
(b) He is worried.
(c) He is jealous.
(d) He is proud.

6. What role does Fatty Choy play in the gambling club?
(a) Generic Asian Man.
(b) Mini Boss.
(c) Lowlife Oriental.
(d) Sleazy Asian Guy.

7. What always happens in the scene from Black and White that recurs throughout "ACT II: INT. GOLDEN PALACE"?
(a) The main characters interrogate an Asian man sweeping the restaurant.
(b) The main characters discuss the body of a dead Asian man.
(c) The main characters shoot an unarmed Asian man.
(d) The main characters break character and laugh.

8. What causes Turner to lecture the protagonist about the system?
(a) The protagonist tries to defend the residents of Chinatown.
(b) The protagonist asks for a bigger role in Black and White.
(c) The protagonist objects to being called "the Asian Guy."
(d) The protagonist tells Turner and Green that they cannot act.

9. What stereotypical musical sound does Black and White use?
(a) A guqin.
(b) A gong.
(c) An erhu.
(d) A guzheng.

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

11. What is the point of view used in Interior Chinatown?
(a) First person.
(b) Second person.
(c) Third person omniscient.
(d) Third person limited.

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

13. What is the main problem with living on the floor that the protagonist lives on?
(a) It often floods because the shower pan on the floor above is cracked.
(b) It is a high floor and the elevator is always broken.
(c) It is the only floor that does not have its own bathroom and shower.
(d) It is the floor where all of the gang members live.

14. How often does the protagonist visit his father?
(a) Weekly.
(b) Monthly.
(c) Daily.
(d) On holidays.

15. 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) Turner did not realize that the protagonist was cooperating with them.
(d) It implies that the protagonist is an important or permanent part of their team.

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 words could be said to summarize the "Repertoire" listed on page 7?

3. What is a reasonable summary of the poem on page 6?

4. In "ACT II: INT. GOLDEN PALACE," what does the protagonist find the other men doing outside his door?

5. In "ACT II: INT. GOLDEN PALACE," who is standing by the protagonist's door when he arrives home after work?

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