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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. Where does Mr. Sanchez work?

2. What card game is Zeppelin playing when Wittman visits him?

3. What does the elderly woman teach Wittman?

4. What does Wittmann warn Tasa that his tale will turn her into?

5. Where did Zeppelin and his friends take Popo for a picnic?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Wittman get himself and Tasa thrown out of the restaurant?

2. What does Wittman say to his mother on the phone?

3. What obligations does Wittman feel he has to fulfill?

4. What theater elements feature in Wittman's new play?

5. Why does Mr. Sanchez think that Wittman's English is not as good as he thinks it is?

6. How does Wittman persuade his mother to dance in his show?

7. What does Wittman explain to the elderly Chinese woman?

8. How does Wittman persuade the firemen to overlook the violation?

9. What references does Wittman make to popular culture in Chapter 7?

10. What does the elderly Chinese woman teach Wittman?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Look at the structure of the novel.

1) How does the author use character and dialogue to drive the narrative?

2) Discuss elements of the narrative structure; Exposition, conflict, complication, climax, resolution and conclusion. Do all the elements make for a logical and linear story? How does the story's structure express the novel's themes?

Essay Topic 2

The author writes the novel in the third person. Why do you think the author chose to write the story in the third person? How do you think the meaning of the story would change if the author wrote it in the first person?

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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