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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. Why does the protagonist decide not to move when Karen moves?
(a) He believes that he is on the verge of becoming Kung Fu Guy.
(b) He is afraid of his feelings for her.
(c) He thinks that she is being insincere about wanting him to come with her.
(d) The pressure of being a married man is too much for him.

2. In ACT V: KUNG FU DAD," what does the protagonist ask about the story that Phoebe and Karen are living in, now?
(a) He asks if there is a role for him in this story.
(b) He asks if he and Karen are together in this story.
(c) He asks if he is a good father in this story.
(d) He asks if he is a part of Phoebe's life in this story.

3. What is the fear that Phoebe hesitates to tell the protagonist?
(a) She is afraid of him dying.
(b) She is afraid of witches.
(c) She is afraid of disappointing Karen.
(d) She is afraid of loving him.

4. Why does Ming-Chen Wu leave UCLA?
(a) His mother gets sick and he is needed to support the family.
(b) He can no longer pay his tuition and has to move to find more work.
(c) He is failing an important class in his major.
(d) He is tired of all of the racist harassment.

5. What role does Older Brother play in the trial?
(a) Judge.
(b) Defense attorney.
(c) Witness.
(d) Prosecutor.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Ming-Chen Wu tolerate the constant sexual harassment of Dorothy?

2. What question does Green put to the protagonist?

3. What worry does the protagonist have about staying with Karen and Phoebe?

4. Who were the Kuomintang?

5. What is revealed about Phoebe's personality during her soliloquy in ACT V: KUNG FU DAD"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the rhetorical purpose of the list of anti-Asian laws that begins "ACT VI: THE CASE OF THE MISSING ASIAN"?

2. What is the structural purpose of telling the story of Ming-Chen Wu and Dorothy right before the protagonist starts his relationship with Karen?

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

4. 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?

5. What is Green's argument when she accuses the protagonist of narcissism?

6. Why does the protagonist react badly both to the news about the baby and the later news about Karen's new show?

7. What happens to Ming-Chen Wu when he finally gets the role of Sifu?

8. Explain the literal and nonliteral meanings of the world inside Phoebe's closet.

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

10. What is the double-meaning of "learning time" in "ACT V: KUNG FU DAD"?

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