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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 words could be said to summarize the "Repertoire" listed on page 7?
(a) Ambitious, unrealistic.
(b) Ambiguous, vague.
(c) Bitter, demanding.
(d) Limited, stereotypical.

2. What are the seven main sections of Interior Chinatown called?
(a) Scenes.
(b) Stanzas.
(c) Chapters.
(d) Acts.

3. On page 93, to whom does the protagonist deliver the line "You move slow, like a turtle"?
(a) Fatty Choy.
(b) Turner.
(c) Young Fong.
(d) His father.

4. What role does the protagonist play throughout most of "ACT III: ETHNIC RECURRING"?
(a) Kung Fu Guy.
(b) Generic Asian Man Number One.
(c) Special Guest Star.
(d) Generic Asian Man Number Two.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In "ACT II: INT. GOLDEN PALACE," what happens when the building residents get fed up with their living conditions?

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

3. What is the protagonist's father's real name?

4. What is "drunken monkey" (13)?

5. What is the "Floating Latina"?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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