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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. On page 195, when the protagonist questions Karen's choice of a place to bring Phoebe up, what does Karen reply?
(a) "That was your choice."
(b) "You lost the right to make that decision."
(c) "Sometimes grown-ups need to make hard choices."
(d) "You'll figure it out."

2. What question does Green put to the protagonist?
(a) She asks if he ever really wanted to be an actor.
(b) She asks if he thinks that Asians have been persecuted as much as Blacks.
(c) She asks if he thinks that Asians are the only invisible group.
(d) She asks if he actually knows kung fu.

3. In ACT V: KUNG FU DAD," what has the protagonist's name changed to in the script?
(a) Generic Asian Father.
(b) Kung Fu Guy.
(c) Kung Fu Dad.
(d) Special Guest Star.

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

5. Why do Dorothy and Ming-Chen Wu end up renting a place to live at the Chinatown SRO?
(a) They are trying to save money to buy a house.
(b) No one else will rent to them because of their race.
(c) The Chinatown SRO Apartments are the only place they can afford.
(d) They dream of being actors on a hit television show.

Short Answer Questions

1. What role does Karen usually play?

2. What is the first thing that Older Brother asks the protagonist?

3. When the protagonist offers to play with Phoebe, where does she retreat?

4. What is revealed about Phoebe's feelings about her father in her soliloquy in ACT V: KUNG FU DAD"?

5. What does "ACT VI: THE CASE OF THE MISSING ASIAN" begin with?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does the protagonist believe he will gain and lose by staying with Phoebe and Karen?

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

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

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

6. What is Older Brother's purpose in introducing People v Hall?

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

8. What is Turner's argument about the protagonist's internalized inferiority?

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

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

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