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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 is the name of the television show the book focuses on?
(a) The Golden Palace.
(b) Twin Dragons.
(c) Chinatown.
(d) Black and White.

2. What does the protagonist think about telling Turner the truth about?
(a) His education and his ability to speak English.
(b) His mixed feelings about the role he is playing.
(c) His kung fu ability.
(d) His father's situation.

3. What does the protagonist know about the dangerous-looking people in the casino?
(a) They are all very religious.
(b) They are mostly fry-cooks and waiters.
(c) They do not have very good kung fu skills.
(d) They are all A-students.

4. What distinguishes the parts of the script that describe what the protagonist is doing during the filming of Black and White?
(a) They are written in poetic verse.
(b) They are right-justified.
(c) They are in a different font.
(d) They are in all-caps.

5. In the flashback in In "ACT II: INT. GOLDEN PALACE," what does the protagonist keep telling his mother he is going to do?
(a) Run away from home.
(b) Become a director.
(c) Grow up to be Bruce Lee.
(d) Marry the Hostess.

Short Answer Questions

1. What causes Turner to lecture the protagonist about the system?

2. What is the protagonist's dream job?

3. Where does the protagonist live?

4. When the protagonist first tells his father that he is working with Green and Turner, how does his father react?

5. After the accident with the hot tea, what visible reminder is there of the protagonist's carelessness?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does the Emperor feel about the commercial he was in, and how does the reader know this?

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

5. 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.

6. Describe the interior of the Golden Palace.

7. What ultimately happened to Older Brother?

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

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

10. What language does the protagonist speak to his father in the restaurant, and how does it reveal one source of the gap between them?

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