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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. From the discussion of lighting on page 11, what can reasonably be inferred?
2. In both of the character descriptions for the male and female officers, what quality is emphasized?
3. In "ACT II: INT. GOLDEN PALACE," who is standing by the protagonist's door when he arrives home after work?
4. On page 8 is a list of your mother's roles. What do most of these roles have in common?
5. In "ACT II: INT. GOLDEN PALACE," what happens when the building residents get fed up with their living conditions?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does the protagonist believe is the reason for the bickering between the two detectives in the opening of "ACT III: ETHNIC RECURRING," and why is he offended?
2. What ultimately happened to Older Brother?
3. What causes the protagonist to realize that his father is suffering from dementia, and how does he respond?
4. Why do people say that Older Brother should have helped Sifu more?
5. How does the text describe Bruce Lee?
6. Why do the residents of the Chinatown SRO Apartments feel as if they never really leave work?
7. How does the Emperor feel about the commercial he was in, and how does the reader know this?
8. What offensive remark does Turner make when the protagonist threatens to go back to the restaurant, and what happens afterward?
9. What language does the protagonist speak to his father in the restaurant, and how does it reveal one source of the gap between them?
10. How does the protagonist feel when he sees his father working in the kitchen, and why?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay that examines how Interior Chinatown's status as metafiction as well as its use of pastiche, and hyperreality and simulacra relate to the thematic motif of performance versus authenticity. Be sure to support your ideas with evidence from the text and to cite any outside references in MLA format.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay in which you analyze what Interior Chinatown is saying about the "Black and White show" running in America. In what sense is this show allegorical, and what messages is it sending about America's tactics for dealing with race? Be sure to use textual evidence to support your claims.
Essay Topic 3
Write a thesis-driven essay in which you examine the various sources of and beliefs about power and authority in Interior Chinatown. Be sure that your essay recognizes the difference between power and authority and incorporates this distinction into its central argument. Support your claims with evidence from the text.
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