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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 does "ACT VI: THE CASE OF THE MISSING ASIAN" begin with?
(a) The surprise entrance of Older Brother.
(b) The protagonist sitting in court.
(c) A list of when anti-Asian laws were repealed.
(d) A list of anti-Asian laws.

2. Why does Ming-Chen Wu tolerate the constant sexual harassment of Dorothy?
(a) Men do not generally consider it offensive at this time in history.
(b) He is not really in love with Dorothy.
(c) He thinks that Dorothy encourages it.
(d) She makes more money, and they need her income.

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

4. Who are the witnesses against the protagonist?
(a) Dorothy and Ming-Chen.
(b) Karen and Phoebe.
(c) Fatty Choy and Young Fong.
(d) Green and Turner.

5. Why do Dorothy and Ming-Chen Wu end up renting a place to live at the Chinatown SRO?
(a) No one else will rent to them because of their race.
(b) They are trying to save money to buy a house.
(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. When the police show up to take the protagonist, what does he reveal?

2. What role does Karen usually play?

3. What is the reign of violent oppression begun by Chiang Kai-shek called?

4. When Green asks to make a statement, how does the judge respond?

5. Who is Angela?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what sense does Older Brother agree that the protagonist is guilty?

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What happens to Ming-Chen Wu's friend Allen after he becomes a success in the United States?

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

10. 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?

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