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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 is the name of the police unit featured in Black and White?
2. How often does the protagonist visit his father?
3. In "ACT II: INT. GOLDEN PALACE," what happens when the building residents get fed up with their living conditions?
4. What is the "terminal, ultimate, exalted position for any Asian working in this world" (12)?
5. Where does the protagonist's mother live?
Short Essay Questions
1. What offensive remark does Turner make when the protagonist threatens to go back to the restaurant, and what happens afterward?
2. 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."
3. In what two ways does Karen Lee try to save the protagonist, and how do her attempts fail?
4. What are the protagonist's earliest memories of his father?
5. 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?
6. How does Young Fong pack his father's things, and why is this so significant to the protagonist?
7. Describe the interior of the Golden Palace.
8. Why do the residents of the Chinatown SRO Apartments feel as if they never really leave work?
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. When Green takes the protagonist's side in his argument with Turner, what does Turner say about both the protagonist's and Green's reactions?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 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
Do some research on the terms "late capitalism" and "commodification" as they relate to postmodernism. When you have a strong understanding of these terms, write a thesis-driven essay that applies them to Yu's Interior Chinatown. Be sure to support your ideas with evidence from the text and to cite any outside references in MLA format.
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