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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. Which of the following does Wittman contemplate buying at the market?

2. What movie director does Wittman reference?

3. Where does Wittman board a bus to?

4. How are Chinese toes different from Japanese toes?

5. What position was Witttman demoted from?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Wittman do when Nanci leaves his apartment?

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

3. How does Wittman try to dissuade the Chinese girl from talking to him?

4. Why can Wittman's statement about being the monkey King be seen as true?

5. What does Wittman tell Nanci about his life?

6. What does Wittman write about long into the night?

7. What does Wittman dream about in chapter 2?

8. What does Lance do for the winners of the party?

9. What does Wittmann see when he has an acid flashback?

10. How does Gabe help out Wittman and Tasa?

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

Identify the main themes of the story. In what way are these themes relevant to the time period? How does the author use character and setting to express these themes?

Essay Topic 3

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.

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