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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. Who is Wittman offended by at the restaurant?

2. What was the name of the Lone Ranger's faithful sidekick?

3. What is the name of Popo's new husband?

4. What is the name of Wittman's mother?

5. What is Wittman's story in the tradition of?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What agreement have Wittman and Tasa come to about work?

4. What does the elderly Chinese woman teach Wittman?

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

6. What does Wittmann think has happened to Popo?

7. How does Zeppelin live his life?

8. What role do Lance and the Young Yale Poet have in Wittman's play?

9. How does Zeppelin illustrate the cheapness of the Chang family?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write a 500-word essay revolving around one of the following statements:

1) The popular culture references shows how varied American popular culture is and the options open to Wittman as a Chinese American.

2) Wittman feels he has a right to racially discriminated because he has been discriminated against himself.

3) People's views on Chinese American are becoming more positive as Chinese American integrate themselves more into American society.

Essay Topic 2

Choose one of the races Kingston represents in the book and examine the myths and stereotypes that surround that race in popular culture. How did these myths develop? What is the truth behind the myth?

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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