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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 is the name of Wittman's mother?

2. What is the title of Wittman's play?

3. What does Popo have in the box?

4. What is the employment office Wittman is sent to near to?

5. What does Wittman offer the firemen if they agree to overlook the violation?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Wittman not like Siew Loong, Little Dragon?

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

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

4. Why do the Chinese not consider barbarians as ugly?

5. Why is Wittman not sure if Popo is his grandmother?

6. What is Wittman's new play about?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the author's life. In what way are her life and personality reflected in the book? How does she use the novel to express her views?

Essay Topic 2

Compare Wittman's character to the person he was at the beginning of the book to the person he is at the end of the book.

1) What does Wittman hope to achieve at the beginning of the book?

2) What events changes Wittman's ideas about life?

3) How has Wittman's character changed by the end of the novel?

Essay Topic 3

Aside from the main character examine the way the author uses the other characters in the book. When does he introduce and take them away from the story? What effect does it have on the story?

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