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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 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.

2. When the protagonist runs into "Attractive Officer" by the donut table, who else does she point out is "invisible" in the world of Black and White?
(a) Latinas.
(b) Unattractive women.
(c) Asian women.
(d) Black women.

3. When the protagonist offers to play with Phoebe, where does she retreat?
(a) To the set of her show.
(b) To Karen's room.
(c) To her castle.
(d) To her imaginary "school."

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

5. What is revealed about Phoebe's personality during her soliloquy in ACT V: KUNG FU DAD"?
(a) She makes a lot of jokes.
(b) She is compassionate.
(c) She is anxious.
(d) She loves music.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Dorothy go to live next after she leaves Alabama?

2. Who is Phoebe?

3. What does the phrase "a castle in the air" refer to?

4. Where has Older Brother been while he has been "missing"?

5. What habit does Phoebe have that shows when she is nervous?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. What is the conflict between the protagonist and Karen about how Phoebe is growing 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 does the protagonist see as the benefits and drawbacks of the place where his daughter is growing up?

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

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's friend Allen after he becomes a success in the United States?

8. When Dorothy and Ming-Chen Wu first meet, Dorothy asks him "Now that you've found me, what do you have to say for yourself?" (132) What is his response, and what is its significance?

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

10. How does Yu set the reader up to feel the maximum impact of the revelation of Phoebe's fifth "fear"?

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