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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 revealed about Phoebe's feelings about her father in her soliloquy in ACT V: KUNG FU DAD"?
(a) She idealizes and misses him.
(b) She is angry and is trying to push him away.
(c) She is very hurt by his behavior toward her.
(d) She barely remembers her father.

2. Where does Dorothy go to live next after she leaves Alabama?
(a) Mississippi.
(b) Ohio.
(c) The Chinatown SRO Apartments.
(d) California.

3. Why does Karen tell the protagonist, "I don't want to practice dating" (167)?
(a) He is responding to the situation in an artificial, scripted way.
(b) She is hinting that she is serious enough about him to marry him.
(c) He has the emotional understanding of a child.
(d) She has already had too many failed relationships.

4. What reason does a recruiter give Ming-Chen Wu for no one wanting to hire him?
(a) The Vietnam War has increased racism against people of Asian descent.
(b) He did not finish his doctorate.
(c) He does not have a foreign accent.
(d) His Taiwanese accent makes him hard to understand.

5. What is the first thing that Older Brother asks the protagonist?
(a) How the show is going.
(b) Whether people miss him.
(c) How Sifu is.
(d) Whether he is guilty.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the protagonist is about to tell Karen about his meeting with the director, what news does Karen have for him?

2. What is the jury's verdict?

3. How old is Ming-Chen Wu when the 2/28 Incident takes place?

4. What is the name of Phoebe's character on the new television show?

5. On page 226, what is the prosecution's only question for Green?

Short Essay Questions

1. What causes the protagonist to finally go in search of his family?

2. What is the confusion over who the "missing Asian" is, and what bizarre revelation comes as the confusion is cleared up?

3. When Ming-Chen tells Dorothy, on page 155, "This is how we met. And fell in love," what is Dorothy's response, and what compromise do they reach?

4. What is the real struggle that the protagonist is undergoing as he tries to tell Phoebe a story?

5. On page 188, the script notes that Karen and Phoebe's show is "a cartoon. Sort of." In what sense is this both literally and figuratively true?

6. What is the conflict between the protagonist and Karen about how Phoebe is growing up?

7. When the police come for the protagonist, where does Karen say he is going, and what evidence is there that she does not really understand the protagonist's plan?

8. What are the main points that the protagonist makes in his monologue?

9. What does the protagonist see as the benefits and drawbacks of the place where his daughter is growing up?

10. What is the significance, during the protagonist's monologue, of the light hitting him "just right" (245)?

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