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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 does the Monkey King learn to turn into clones of himself?

2. What does Jin's friendship with Peter Garbinsky show about Jin?

3. What does Jin's Transformer change into?

4. What do the monkeys notice about the Monkey King when he comes out of his underground chamber?

5. What is Melanie's first reaction to Danny's odd behavior on page 45?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Jin's parents meet?

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

3. What does Tze-Yo-Tzuh tell the Monkey King about his power, and what is the Monkey King's response?

4. How did the Monkey King become king?

5. What does Tze-Yo-Tzuh tell the Monkey King about being a monkey, and what is the Monkey King's response?

6. What is similar about the day Jin is introduced to his new class and the day that Wei-Chen is introduced to his new class?

7. How does the Monkey King discover that there is a party happening in heaven?

8. What visual stereotypes about Chinese people are evident in Chapter 3?

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

10. In what ways do the other students at Mayflower Elementary isolate Jin socially?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay that analyzes the role that peer groups play in American Born Chinese. Be sure to support your claims with evidence from the text.

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

Now that you know the ending of American Born Chinese, your ideas about the sitcom-like presentation of Danny's life should have shifted and become more complex. Write an essay in which you explore how the book's revelation that Danny is Jin changes the reader's understanding of the way Danny's life is presented. Support your ideas with evidence from the text.

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