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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. In "ACT II: INT. GOLDEN PALACE," what reason is given for Asian actors being kept in the background?
(a) Their presence over-complicates the simplistic narrative of Black and White.
(b) The lead actors are prejudiced against Asian-Americans.
(c) They are not seen as "real" Americans.
(d) The script writers do not know how to write for Asian characters.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the flashback in In "ACT II: INT. GOLDEN PALACE," what does the protagonist's mother make him promise?

2. According to the list on page 11, what is the role where most Asian male actors get stuck as their careers progress?

3. In the narrative present, which role does the protagonist's father play?

4. On page 8 is a list of your mother's roles. What do most of these roles have in common?

5. Who is the protagonist of Interior Chinatown?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did the protagonist's father and Older Brother have a falling out, and what does the detectives' reaction demonstrate about them?

2. Explain the central conceit of the section in which the protagonist visits and cares for his father despite his father seeming not to recognize him.

3. Explain what thematic ideas are communicated in the description from page 37, "BLACK AND WHITE. Two cops, one of each race....they drive around in a black-and-white police car, even through they're detectives."

4. What are some of the details that people should realize mean that Sifu is living in poverty?

5. When the protagonist finally steps into the spotlight, what is his first line, and what does it signify?

6. What do people in Chinatown say about Older Brother, and why does the narrative say that it does not matter?

7. What is the paradox that periodically sends the residents of the Chinatown SRO Apartments over the edge into an all-night party?

8. What does Turner tell the protagonist about the system--about what rising up through it means, and about his own place within it?

9. How does Young Fong pack his father's things, and why is this so significant to the protagonist?

10. What causes the protagonist to realize that his father is suffering from dementia, and how does he respond?

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