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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 "ACT II: INT. GOLDEN PALACE," who is standing by the protagonist's door when he arrives home after work?
(a) His mother.
(b) The Hostess.
(c) His father.
(d) Fatty Choy.

2. What is "Jade Palace"?
(a) The apartment complex where the protagonist lives.
(b) The headquarters of a Chinese gang.
(c) A rival restaurant.
(d) The former name of the Golden Palace.

3. Why did Ming-Chen Wu and Older Brother argue?
(a) Older Brother wanted to loan Ming-Chen Wu money.
(b) Older Brother boasted that his kung fu was better than Ming-Chen Wu's.
(c) Ming-Chen Wu asked Older Brother to train the protagonist in kung fu.
(d) Ming-Chen Wu caught Older Brother gambling.

4. Why do the other women shun The Hostess?
(a) She often plays prostitutes.
(b) She has quit the show.
(c) She does not respect her elders.
(d) She is not Chinese.

5. What is the "Floating Latina"?
(a) A Latina actress with a peculiar way of walking across the set.
(b) A Latina actress who takes different Latina roles in different episodes.
(c) A Latina actress who is sometimes featured in the background of posters.
(d) A Latina actress whose character is found drowned.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is so special about Older Brother?

2. What is the "terminal, ultimate, exalted position for any Asian working in this world" (12)?

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

4. Who is the protagonist of Interior Chinatown?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does the text describe Bruce Lee?

3. What are the multiple identities of Karen Lee?

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

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

6. In what two ways does Karen Lee try to save the protagonist, and how do her attempts fail?

7. 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."

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

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

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

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