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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 Wittman call his grandmother?

2. Where do Wittman and Tasa go after the restaurant?

3. Who has Wittman cast Lance and the Yale Younger Poet as?

4. What is the name of Wittman's mother?

5. What does Wittman accuse Loong of being?

Short Essay Questions

1. What role do Lance and the Young Yale Poet have in Wittman's play?

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

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

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

5. What does the elderly Chinese woman teach Wittman?

6. How does Wittman persuade the firemen to overlook the violation?

7. How does Zeppelin illustrate the cheapness of the Chang family?

8. How does Wittman persuade his mother to dance in his show?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine the novel's dialogue. How does the author's dialogue contribute to the following areas:

1) Character

2) Setting

3) Plot

Essay Topic 2

Compare Wittman's character to the person he was at the beginning of the book to the person he is at the end of the book.

1) What does Wittman hope to achieve at the beginning of the book?

2) What events changes Wittman's ideas about life?

3) How has Wittman's character changed by the end of the novel?

Essay Topic 3

Compare Chinese and western culture.

1) What are the differences between the two cultures?

2) In what way have the two cultures influenced each other?

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