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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. Who is "Older Brother"?

2. What stereotypical musical sound does Black and White use?

3. What is the name of the police unit featured in Black and White?

4. What is so special about Older Brother?

5. Who has played "Guy in a Soiled T-shirt" (9)?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain the context of the "Wong guy" pun and how the actors react to it in "ACT II: INT. GOLDEN PALACE."

2. What are some of the details that people should realize mean that Sifu is living in poverty?

3. When Green and Turner do not offer Mini Boss the deal that he wants, how does he escape?

4. How does Young Fong pack his father's things, and why is this so significant to the protagonist?

5. Why do the residents of the Chinatown SRO Apartments feel as if they never really leave work?

6. What language does the protagonist speak to his father in the restaurant, and how does it reveal one source of the gap between them?

7. What ultimately happened to Older Brother?

8. What do people in Chinatown say about Older Brother, and why does the narrative say that it does not matter?

9. What are the protagonist's earliest memories of his father?

10. In what two ways does Karen Lee try to save the protagonist, and how do her attempts fail?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay in which you explore the text's mixed emotional responses to Older Brother. What emotions does he elicit from Willis's perspective and from the other residents of Chinatown? Which emotions are directly expressed, and which are implied? How would you explain the conflicting responses he generates? Be sure to support your claims with textual evidence.

Essay Topic 2

Write a thesis-driven essay in which you analyze the function of the quotes that precede the various acts. What ideas do they focus on? Who are their authors, and why does it matter? Why include them at all? Be sure to cite all sources in MLA format.

Essay Topic 3

Write a thesis-driven essay in which you analyze the ambitions of Willis Wu. What are his ambitions, and where do they come from? At what point do his ambitions cease being merely about wanting material security (a safe and comfortable place to live, enough food to eat, etc.) and start to be about something more intangible (ego, status, etc.) Are these ambitions inherent in his personality, or are his ideas about success derived from culture, family, or some other source? Be sure to provide textual support for your claims.

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