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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 main problem with living on the floor that the protagonist lives on?
(a) It is the floor where all of the gang members live.
(b) It is a high floor and the elevator is always broken.
(c) It is the only floor that does not have its own bathroom and shower.
(d) It often floods because the shower pan on the floor above is cracked.

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

3. Who says, on page 96, "I'm not a person, I'm a category"?
(a) The protagonist.
(b) Ming-Chen Wu.
(c) Green.
(d) Turner.

4. What causes Turner to lecture the protagonist about the system?
(a) The protagonist asks for a bigger role in Black and White.
(b) The protagonist objects to being called "the Asian Guy."
(c) The protagonist tries to defend the residents of Chinatown.
(d) The protagonist tells Turner and Green that they cannot act.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What brings the protagonist's first Special Guest Star role to an end?

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

4. On page 81 of "ACT III: ETHNIC RECURRING," what piece of Tuner's dialogue does Green critique?

5. How did the "Emperor" get his name?

Short Essay Questions

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

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. What are the protagonist's earliest memories of his father?

4. What ultimately happened to Older Brother?

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

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

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

8. When Green takes the protagonist's side in his argument with Turner, what does Turner say about both the protagonist's and Green's reactions?

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

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