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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the first thing that Older Brother asks the protagonist?
(a) Whether he is guilty.
(b) How Sifu is.
(c) How the show is going.
(d) Whether people miss him.

2. What does Turner accuse the protagonist of?
(a) Neglecting his family responsibilities.
(b) Causing Older Brother's disappearance.
(c) Internalizing a sense of inferiority.
(d) Being a terrible actor.

3. Why does the protagonist decide not to move when Karen moves?
(a) He thinks that she is being insincere about wanting him to come with her.
(b) The pressure of being a married man is too much for him.
(c) He believes that he is on the verge of becoming Kung Fu Guy.
(d) He is afraid of his feelings for her.

4. In ACT V: KUNG FU DAD," what does the protagonist ask about the story that Phoebe and Karen are living in, now?
(a) He asks if he is a part of Phoebe's life in this story.
(b) He asks if there is a role for him in this story.
(c) He asks if he is a good father in this story.
(d) He asks if he and Karen are together in this story.

5. Who turns out to be the actual "missing Asian"?
(a) Willis Wu.
(b) Old Fong.
(c) Older Brother.
(d) Sifu.

6. What does the protagonist suggest that he can teach the children on Karen and Phoebe's show?
(a) Kung Fu.
(b) Singing.
(c) Storytelling.
(d) Acting.

7. What happens when the protagonist is finally freed from Black and White?
(a) The show moves its location to a Hispanic barrio.
(b) The show ends, leaving Chinatown permanently.
(c) A new "Generic Asian Man" takes his place on the show.
(d) The show rebrands itself as "Black and Yellow."

8. Why does Older Brother say that the court cannot properly hear this case?
(a) Because the judge is in love with the prosecutor.
(b) Because the court is set up to see everything as Black or White.
(c) Because the police have not even decided if Willis is a suspect.
(d) Because the court can only hear cases involving American citizens.

9. What is a "dialectic"?
(a) A manner of speaking outside of the mainstream.
(b) A conversation.
(c) Something intended to sabotage an official process.
(d) Something that operates through opposing forces.

10. What point does Older Brother make about discrimination against Asians in the United States?
(a) Because Asians were not enslaved they can not claim to have been persecuted.
(b) There are still many laws that discriminate against Asian Americans.
(c) It has been different from the experience of Black Americans, but is still serious.
(d) Although it was serious in the past, it disappeared a long time ago.

11. Why does Chiang Kai-shek enter Taiwan?
(a) China is annexing Taiwan.
(b) Mao forces him out of mainland China.
(c) He wants to begin a Nationalist Party in Taiwan.
(d) Chen-Yi asks for his help.

12. What question does Green put to the protagonist?
(a) She asks if he ever really wanted to be an actor.
(b) She asks if he thinks that Asians are the only invisible group.
(c) She asks if he thinks that Asians have been persecuted as much as Blacks.
(d) She asks if he actually knows kung fu.

13. When the police show up to take the protagonist, what does he reveal?
(a) He has been wanting to return to Black and White.
(b) He planned all along for them to find the family.
(c) He thinks there is a way for him to do both "shows."
(d) He could not think of another way to leave.

14. What name does Karen call the protagonist by?
(a) Kung Fu Guy.
(b) Will.
(c) Sifu.
(d) Willis.

15. What song is it implied that the protagonist's father is singing at the close of the novel?
(a) "Take Me Home Tonight."
(b) "Take Me Home, Country Roads."
(c) "Can't Find My Way Home."
(d) "Take the Long Way Home."

Short Answer Questions

1. When the protagonist asks Phoebe how she managed to create a whole world for herself, what does she show him?

2. What habit does Phoebe have that shows when she is nervous?

3. What is the fear that Phoebe hesitates to tell the protagonist?

4. How many children were in Dorothy Wu's family?

5. When the protagonist runs into "Attractive Officer" by the donut table, who else does she point out is "invisible" in the world of Black and White?

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