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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. Where has Older Brother been while he has been "missing"?
(a) Another t.v. show.
(b) Law school.
(c) Building a business.
(d) Living in the suburbs.

2. What point does Older Brother make about discrimination against Asians in the United States?
(a) It has been different from the experience of Black Americans, but is still serious.
(b) Although it was serious in the past, it disappeared a long time ago.
(c) Because Asians were not enslaved they can not claim to have been persecuted.
(d) There are still many laws that discriminate against Asian Americans.

3. What role does Karen usually play?
(a) White Girl With Exotic Eyes.
(b) Special Guest Star.
(c) Ethnically Ambiguous Woman Number One.
(d) Floating Latina.

4. Who does the judge say will decide if the protagonist is a victim or a suspect?
(a) The television show.
(b) The court.
(c) Older Brother.
(d) The police.

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(a) A list of when anti-Asian laws were repealed.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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In her soliloquy in ACT V: KUNG FU DAD," what is one of the things that Phoebe says she will make and sell?

3. Why does Chiang Kai-shek enter Taiwan?

4. Who were the Kuomintang?

5. Why does the protagonist decide not to move when Karen moves?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is the real struggle that the protagonist is undergoing as he tries to tell Phoebe a story?

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

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

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

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

8. How does Dorothy's sister Angela treat her, and what is ironic about Angela's eventual fate?

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

10. In what ways does "ACT V: KUNG FU DAD" show that Phoebe's innocence and youth are protective?

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