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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 does Sunny call Wittman?

2. What kind of seafood do the grandmothers chop?

3. What does Wittman hope he can get as a permanent job?

4. What kind of car does Tasa own?

5. Where is Wittman sent to get a bicycle?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Wittman fantasize about on the bus?

2. What was Wittman's student film about?

3. Why does Wittman say he envies the Japanese?

4. How does Wittmann react when Nanci compares his work to LeRoi Jones?

5. Who does Wittman encounter in the stockroom?

6. How does the Chinese man embarrass Wittman during the seminar?

7. What does Wittman dream about in chapter 2?

8. What does Wittman do before he walks out of his job?

9. Why is Wittman angry with Lance over their first meeting?

10. What has Wittman's co-worker, Louise, forgotten about Wittman?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Kingston wrote TRIPMASTER MONKEY in 1990. Choose one of the following options and discuss how people's ideas about race and stereotyping have changed since then:

1) Television and film.

2) The workplace.

3) Education.

Essay Topic 2

Maxine Hong Kingston is known as a feminist writer.

1) How are her views reflected in the novel?

2) Compare her feminist views to feminism in today's society.

Essay Topic 3

Choose one of the following and discuss how it affects the tone of the novel and helps to express character and theme:

1) Setting

2) Point of view

3) Structure

4) Language

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