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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. What are the seven main sections of Interior Chinatown called?

2. What do the detectives learn that sends them looking for the protagonist's father?

3. Who is the protagonist of Interior Chinatown?

4. From the discussion of lighting on page 11, what can reasonably be inferred?

5. What does the word "Ba" mean in the context of the scene in the Golden Palace's kitchen?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does the text describe Bruce Lee?

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

4. What causes the protagonist to realize that his father is suffering from dementia, and how does he respond?

5. What about Older Brother's looks make him appealing to non-Asian audiences?

6. How does the Emperor feel about the commercial he was in, and how does the reader know this?

7. When the protagonist finally steps into the spotlight, what is his first line, and what does it signify?

8. Explain what thematic ideas are communicated in the description from page 37, "BLACK AND WHITE. Two cops, one of each race....they drive around in a black-and-white police car, even through they're detectives."

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay that explores the impact of poverty on the residents of the Chinatown SRO Apartments. Consider how it impacts their relationships, their interior lives, and their beliefs about America. Support your claims with evidence from the text.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Write an essay in which you weigh the relative impacts that self-stereotyping and stereotyping by others have on the protagonist of Interior Chinatown. Does he have beliefs about himself or other Asian Americans that are derived from stereotypes rather than from individual personality and abilities? Think about the conflicts he faces, the choices he makes, and his beliefs about himself as you create and defend an argument about how much weight each form of stereotyping has on him. Be sure to use textual evidence to support your claims.

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