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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 is Danny's mother during all of Chapter 3?

2. What does Jin's Transformer change into?

3. What kind of spirit once haunted Flower-Fruit Mountain?

4. What reason does the Dragon King give for the other gods not being willing to go to Flower-Fruit Mountain?

5. In the panels that begin Chapter 2, what is Jin holding on the car ride to his new home?

Short Essay Questions

1. What "exciting news" does Danny's mother have for him, and what is his reaction (46)?

2. What things has the Monkey King studied and mastered?

3. Describe the two settings in Chapter 1.

4. What is Chin-Kee's reaction to Melanie, and how does it make him seem both ridiculous and threatening?

5. What does Jin tell the herbalist's wife he wants to be when he grows up, and how does she respond?

6. What two things are Danny and Melanie talking about when Chapter 3 opens?

7. In what ways other than how he looks is Chin-Kee a stereotyped caricature of a Chinese person?

8. In Chapter 4, what message does the Monkey King receive from heaven, and how does he respond?

9. How did Jin's parents meet?

10. What happens when the Monkey King is refused entrance to the party?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay that analyzes the motif of prejudice in American Born Chinese. Support your ideas with evidence from the book.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay that analyzes how both words and images are used to create humor in American Born Chinese. Support your ideas with evidence from the book.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay that analyzes how images are used to convey tone or mood in American Born Chinese. Support your ideas with evidence from the book.

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