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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 always happens in the scene from Black and White that recurs throughout "ACT II: INT. GOLDEN PALACE"?
(a) The main characters break character and laugh.
(b) The main characters shoot an unarmed Asian man.
(c) The main characters interrogate an Asian man sweeping the restaurant.
(d) The main characters discuss the body of a dead Asian man.

2. Why does Sifu sit in the dark?
(a) He does not believe in modern conveniences.
(b) He is going blind.
(c) To meditate.
(d) He cannot afford electricity.

3. How often does the protagonist visit his father?
(a) On holidays.
(b) Monthly.
(c) Weekly.
(d) Daily.

4. In "ACT II: INT. GOLDEN PALACE," what does the protagonist find the other men doing outside his door?
(a) Rolling dice.
(b) Rehearsing a scene.
(c) Practicing kung fu.
(d) Playing cards.

5. Why does Young Fong get cast in villain roles?
(a) Everyone knows that he is a terrible person.
(b) No one actually knows; it seems like it happened once and then just kept on happening.
(c) His slight build and mild looks make him seem creepy to most Americans.
(d) He is not only large and intimidating, but he is shockingly unattractive.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the majority of the protagonist's earliest memories of his mother centered around?

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

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

4. In the beginning of "ACT III: ETHNIC RECURRING," what is the protagonist trying to accomplish with much of his dialogue?

5. As the protagonist's father listens to the protagonist delivering his lines, why does he start to look disappointed?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do people say that Older Brother should have helped Sifu more?

2. What are the multiple identities of Karen Lee?

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

4. Why do the residents of the Chinatown SRO Apartments feel as if they never really leave work?

5. How does the protagonist feel when he sees his father working in the kitchen, and why?

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

7. How does the text describe Bruce Lee?

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

9. 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?

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

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