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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Green asks to make a statement, how does the judge respond?
(a) By asking her to return to the gallery.
(b) By taking her aside for a private conversation.
(c) By asking her if she wants to share the judge's seat.
(d) By telling her that she can only answer questions from the lawyers.

2. What does "ACT VI: THE CASE OF THE MISSING ASIAN" begin with?
(a) The surprise entrance of Older Brother.
(b) A list of anti-Asian laws.
(c) The protagonist sitting in court.
(d) A list of when anti-Asian laws were repealed.

3. Who does the protagonist notice is missing among the spectators?
(a) His father.
(b) Karen.
(c) Phoebe.
(d) His mother.

4. How old is Phoebe's character in ACT V: KUNG FU DAD"?
(a) 4.
(b) 5.
(c) 7.
(d) 6.

5. What is the reign of violent oppression begun by Chiang Kai-shek called?
(a) The Killing Fields.
(b) The Cultural Revolution.
(c) The 2/28 Incident.
(d) The White Terror.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Older Brother say that the protagonist is guilty of?

2. When Ming-Chen Wu is living in Mississippi, who is the victim of a violent hate crime?

3. What does Older Brother say that Chinatown and being Chinese in America have always been?

4. When the police show up to take the protagonist, what does he reveal?

5. Why does Chiang Kai-shek enter Taiwan?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the real struggle that the protagonist is undergoing as he tries to tell Phoebe a story?

2. What is the rhetorical purpose of the list of anti-Asian laws that begins "ACT VI: THE CASE OF THE MISSING ASIAN"?

3. On page 188, the script notes that Karen and Phoebe's show is "a cartoon. Sort of." In what sense is this both literally and figuratively true?

4. In what ways does "ACT V: KUNG FU DAD" show that Phoebe's innocence and youth are protective?

5. What does the protagonist believe he will gain and lose by staying with Phoebe and Karen?

6. When Ming-Chen tells Dorothy, on page 155, "This is how we met. And fell in love," what is Dorothy's response, and what compromise do they reach?

7. What does the protagonist come to understand about his father in the book's final "Act"?

8. What is Older Brother's purpose in introducing People v Hall?

9. When Dorothy and Ming-Chen Wu first meet, Dorothy asks him "Now that you've found me, what do you have to say for yourself?" (132) What is his response, and what is its significance?

10. What observations about family life does Yu make in the section "GENERIC ASIAN KID"?

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