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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who were the Kuomintang?
(a) A mainland Chinese paramilitary group.
(b) The Nationalist Party in Taiwan.
(c) A mainland Chinese government junta.
(d) An anti-government terrorist group in Taiwan.

2. What is Ming-Chen Wu's first American job?
(a) Waiter.
(b) Nurse's assistant.
(c) Graduate instructor.
(d) Script supervisor.

3. What did the judge rule in People v. Hall?
(a) Chinese laborers can only live and work in Chinatowns.
(b) Immigration of Asian peoples must be halted.
(c) Asians and Indians are the same group.
(d) Marrying an Asian should cause an American to lose citizenship.

4. When Green asks to make a statement, how does the judge respond?
(a) By asking her to return to the gallery.
(b) By telling her that she can only answer questions from the lawyers.
(c) By taking her aside for a private conversation.
(d) By asking her if she wants to share the judge's seat.

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

6. What is the reign of violent oppression begun by Chiang Kai-shek called?
(a) The White Terror.
(b) The Killing Fields.
(c) The Cultural Revolution.
(d) The 2/28 Incident.

7. After the trial, where does the protagonist find himself?
(a) In a brand new setting he has never seen.
(b) On the set of Black and White.
(c) In jail.
(d) On the set of Karen and Phoebe's show.

8. What time period in Taiwan is represented in Karen and Phoebe's new show?
(a) The Kuomintang era.
(b) Pre-colonial times.
(c) A futuristic version of Taiwan.
(d) Modern times.

9. What does Older Brother say that the protagonist is guilty of?
(a) Participating in the system that oppresses him.
(b) Killing Old Fong.
(c) Using kung fu for an improper purpose.
(d) Causing the disappearance of many Asian men.

10. Why do some of the actors think that having their characters die is a good thing?
(a) They enjoy having some time away from acting.
(b) They think that if you play the same character long enough you forget who you are.
(c) They all hate their characters, anyway.
(d) They know that having your character die is the only way to get cast as a higher-status character.

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

12. What reason does a recruiter give Ming-Chen Wu for no one wanting to hire him?
(a) The Vietnam War has increased racism against people of Asian descent.
(b) He does not have a foreign accent.
(c) He did not finish his doctorate.
(d) His Taiwanese accent makes him hard to understand.

13. What does Turner call the protagonist during his testimony?
(a) A weenie.
(b) A nerd.
(c) A gangster.
(d) A ham.

14. How does Phoebe's character move between the three countries represented on her show?
(a) She does not need to move; they are represented as the same physical place.
(b) She steps through a doorway.
(c) She points to a place in her atlas.
(d) She is lifted by a magical balloon.

15. What does the phrase "a castle in the air" refer to?
(a) A perspective from which to see more clearly.
(b) A dream that is not likely to come true.
(c) A secure position from which to defend oneself.
(d) A pure place that uncomfortable truth cannot touch.

Short Answer Questions

1. What question does Green put to the protagonist?

2. Why does Karen tell the protagonist, "I don't want to practice dating" (167)?

3. Who is Angela?

4. When Dorothy comes to Chinatown, she brings a shrine to a "minor god of immigration" (151). What other area does this minor god oversee?

5. In ACT V: KUNG FU DAD," what does the protagonist ask about the story that Phoebe and Karen are living in, now?

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