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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 "ACT II: INT. GOLDEN PALACE," what does the protagonist find the other men doing outside his door?
3. What role does Fatty Choy play in the gambling club?
4. What is the protagonist's father's real name?
5. What is "White Lady Cop's" name?
Short Essay Questions
1. Explain the central conceit of the section in which the protagonist visits and cares for his father despite his father seeming not to recognize him.
2. What does Turner tell the protagonist about the system--about what rising up through it means, and about his own place within it?
3. When Green and Turner do not offer Mini Boss the deal that he wants, how does he escape?
4. In what two ways does Karen Lee try to save the protagonist, and how do her attempts fail?
5. Why did the protagonist's father and Older Brother have a falling out, and what does the detectives' reaction demonstrate about them?
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. 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?
8. What do people in Chinatown say about Older Brother, and why does the narrative say that it does not matter?
9. What do the memories the protagonist has about his mother and food demonstrate?
10. Describe the interior of the Golden Palace.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay that examines the recurring scenes from Black and White in "Act II: Int. Golden Palace." Discuss the significance of what stays constant and what changes, and offer a theory about what this recursive structure is attempting to point out. Be sure to use textual evidence to support your claims.
Essay Topic 2
Interior Chinatown makes a claim that Asian-American immigrants are in a perpetual kind of limbo, always outsiders in America. Write an essay in which you evaluate the novel's claim that Asian-Americans can never really "arrive" in America against objective studies of the extent to which Asian-Americans have been assimilated into mainstream American culture. Remember that anecdotal, personal, and subjective measures are not being called for, here--your evidence should be drawn from a variety of data-rich and well-designed studies. Be sure to use evidence from both Yu's text and from outside sources, and cite all sources in MLA format.
Essay Topic 3
Write a thesis-driven essay in which you analyze the function of the focus throughout the text on the relative attractiveness of various characters. Be sure to use textual evidence to support your claims.
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