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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 song is it implied that the protagonist's father is singing at the close of the novel?
(a) "Take the Long Way Home."
(b) "Can't Find My Way Home."
(c) "Take Me Home Tonight."
(d) "Take Me Home, Country Roads."

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(b) A list of when anti-Asian laws were repealed.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

3. What habit does Phoebe have that shows when she is nervous?
(a) She pretends that she cannot hear what is happening.
(b) She clears her throat twice.
(c) She knots her fingers together.
(d) She pretends that she is somewhere else.

4. Which character is featured in "ACT VII: EXT. CHINATOWN"?
(a) Dorothy Wu.
(b) Karen.
(c) Ming-Chen Wu.
(d) Older Brother.

5. What is a "dialectic"?
(a) Something intended to sabotage an official process.
(b) Something that operates through opposing forces.
(c) A manner of speaking outside of the mainstream.
(d) A conversation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What role does Older Brother play in the trial?

2. What is the fear that Phoebe hesitates to tell the protagonist?

3. What is the first point that Older Brother makes in court?

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

5. How does Phoebe's character move between the three countries represented on her show?

Short Essay Questions

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

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 double-meaning of "learning time" in "ACT V: KUNG FU DAD"?

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

5. 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?

6. What observations about family life does Yu make in the section "GENERIC ASIAN KID"?

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

8. What does the protagonist come to understand about his father in the book's final "Act"?

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

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

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