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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. In the flashback in In "ACT II: INT. GOLDEN PALACE," what is the protagonist's mother studying?
(a) Accounting.
(b) Real estate.
(c) Painting.
(d) English.

2. Where did the protagonist's family immigrate from?
(a) Mongolia.
(b) Hong Kong.
(c) Mainland China.
(d) Taiwan.

3. What is the real purpose of the protagonist's visits to his father?
(a) Taking care of his father's needs.
(b) Learning about his family's history.
(c) Urging his father to go into a retirement home.
(d) Trying to reunite his father and mother.

4. Who is "Older Brother"?
(a) Sifu's older brother.
(b) It is their name for Bruce Lee.
(c) The protagonist's older brother.
(d) A semi-mythic "ideal" Asian man.

5. In the narrative present, which role does the protagonist's father play?
(a) Background Oriental Male.
(b) Old Asian Man.
(c) Twin Dragon.
(d) Sifu.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why do the other women shun The Hostess?

3. What is "Jade Palace"?

4. What always happens in the scene from Black and White that recurs throughout "ACT II: INT. GOLDEN PALACE"?

5. In the opening of "ACT III: ETHNIC RECURRING," what stereotype about Chinese cultural values does the dialogue of Black and White fixate on?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the protagonist believe is the reason for the bickering between the two detectives in the opening of "ACT III: ETHNIC RECURRING," and why is he offended?

2. How does the text describe Bruce Lee?

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

4. 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."

5. When Green and Turner do not offer Mini Boss the deal that he wants, how does he escape?

6. What offensive remark does Turner make when the protagonist threatens to go back to the restaurant, and what happens afterward?

7. What ultimately happened to Older Brother?

8. What are the emotional complexities of the memories attached to the protagonist's mother's scars?

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

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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