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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 Chang also called?

2. What does the elderly woman teach Wittman?

3. What circus did the flim-flam participate in?

4. Who brings Siew Loong with him?

5. Who does Wittman have to create a play for?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Zeppelin say has happened to Popo?

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

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

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

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

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

8. Why is Wittman not allowed to set off firecrackers?

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

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

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

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 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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