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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the narrator take the General and Madame to the Congressman's house for dinner in Chapter 7?
(a) Santa Ana.
(b) San Clementine.
(c) Newport Beach.
(d) Huntington Beach.

2. What is the name of the Auteur's gardener?
(a) Sonny.
(b) Jason.
(c) Danny Boy.
(d) Jose.

3. What is the dish soap that James Yoon is known for promoting in television commercials?
(a) Brawn.
(b) Sheen.
(c) Sudz.
(d) Cleanse.

4. What does the narrator say his mother called him in Chapter 2?
(a) "A bastard."
(b) "Her tree of life."
(c) "A child prodigy."
(d) "Her love child."

5. What do the extras bring to the narrator at the hospital in Chapter 11?
(a) Water and oranges.
(b) His rucksack and his clothing.
(c) A refined script sent by the director.
(d) A fruit basket and bottle of Johnnie Walker.

6. Madame exclaims in Chapter 7, "The worst thing about living in America is" what?
(a) "The culture."
(b) "The racism."
(c) "The people."
(d) "The corruption."

7. Who awaits the narrator when he arrives back in the U.S. from the movie set in Chapter 12?
(a) Madame.
(b) The General.
(c) Man.
(d) Bon.

8. How old is Ms. Mori when the narrator begins his affair with her?
(a) 52.
(b) 39.
(c) 46.
(d) 37.

9. What character is the Idol playing in the film?
(a) Sergeant Jay Bellamy.
(b) Captain Anderson Rockwell.
(c) Sergeant Jay Walters.
(d) Captain Will Shamus.

10. Whom does the narrator say actually came up with the question attributed to Lenin in Chapter 1: "What is to be done?"
(a) Chairman Mao.
(b) Karl Marx.
(c) Nikolay Chernyshevsky.
(d) Friedrich Nietzsche.

11. How old is the Department Chair described as in Chapter 4?
(a) 70-80 years old.
(b) 30-40 years old.
(c) 50-60 years old.
(d) 40-50 years old.

12. When did Lana come to America to attend college?
(a) 1970.
(b) 1972.
(c) 1976.
(d) 1975.

13. What does the narrator say his father called him in Chapter 2?
(a) "Nothing at all."
(b) "A bastard."
(c) "His love child."
(d) "A prodigy."

14. When did the narrator's family flee to the South after living in a northern hamlet?
(a) 1954.
(b) 1959.
(c) 1962.
(d) 1972.

15. In what film does the narrator describe Mickey Rooney playing a "bucktoothed, bespectacled Jap" in Chapter 8?
(a) The Last Battle.
(b) Watership Down.
(c) To Have and Have Not.
(d) Breakfast at Tiffany's.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author writes in Chapter 5, "Under Asian communism, everything but" what "is free"?

2. What job has Bon taken in Chapter 5?

3. Where does the narrator land after returning from the movie set in Chapter 12?

4. To whom is the narrator writing his confession in Chapter 2?

5. What author does the narrator say that Man had introduced him and Bon to in Chapter 1?

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