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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 Jin spend his afternoon classes thinking about?
2. Two times, Danny teases Steve by comparing him to what?
3. What word is first used to describe Wong Lai-Tsao?
4. What are the speech bubbles with elipses (...) and the emenata showing water droplets coming from Jin and Amelia as they wait for the movie to start meant to convey?
5. Why is the Monkey King angry after Wong Lai-Tsao speaks to him?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does a change in Mr. Graham's classroom cause Wei-Chen and the girl that Jin likes to end up staying after school together?
2. What does Chin-Kee do while Steve is looking through his book bag, and why does the author include this strange incident?
3. When Suzy and Wei-Chen are teasing Jin after school, who comes by and makes a comment about them, and how does it change the group's mood?
4. What surprising revelation happens at the end of Chapter 8, and what causes this thing to happen?
5. What do Danny and Steve talk about at lunchtime?
6. What change does Jin make to his appearance in Chapter 5, and why does he do it?
7. Once Jin realizes that he has a crush on a girl, what keeps happening when he is around her?
8. Where does Danny have to go after school, and what upsetting thing happens while he is on his way there?
9. What story did Jin's mother tell him about her choosing to marry his father?
10. In Chapter 5, whom does Jin have a crush on, and what does he like about her?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay that analyzes how clothing is used to characterize people (and monkeys) in American Born Chinese. Support your ideas with evidence from the book.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay that makes and defends a claim about the stories that Jin has been told about his parents' pasts. Be sure to support your ideas with evidence from the text.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay that analyzes Jin's friendship with Peter Garbinsky. What motivates each of them to become friends, what is the nature of their friendship, and what does this friendship demonstrate about Jin? Support your claims with textual evidence.
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