American Born Chinese Quizzes

American Born Chinese Quiz 1

1 Who narrates American Born Chinese?
The Monkey King

An unnamed narrator and Jin, depending on the storyline

Chin-Kee

Jin
2 What genre is American Born Chinese?
Romance novel

Literary fiction

Mystery thriller

Graphic novel
3 Who wrote American Born Chinese?
Gene Yang

Jin Wang

Wang Gene

Lark Pien
4 What was Lark Pien's role in the book?
Author

Publisher

Illustrator

Colorist
5 What year was American Born Chinese first published?
2009

2011

2016

2006
6 How many apparently separate storylines does American Born Chinese contain?
Two

Four

Three

Five
7 Whose storyline does the book begin with?
Jin

Chin-Kee

The Monkey King

Danny
8 Who is the novel's primary protagonist?
Danny

Wei-Chen

Monkey King

Jin Wang
9 What folklore character is the Monkey King based on?
Lsao-Tai

God

Sun Wukong

The Buddha
10 What classic Chinese novel does the Monkey King come from?
Dream of the Red Chamber

Romance of the Three Kingdoms

Journey to the West

Water Margin
11 Where is the majority of Jin's storyline set?
An unnamed American suburb

San Francisco's Chinatown

Hong Kong

Beijing
12 Where are Jin's parents from?
Hong Kong and Taiwan

Mainland China

Hong Kong

Taiwan
13 Whose point of view does the novel follow?
Monkey King's

Danny's

It alternates depending on the section

Jin's
14 Greg looks concerned when he sees Jin and Amelia enjoying their date; later he asks Jin not to ask her out again. When the reader witnesses Greg's displeasure at the movie, it is an example of which literary device?
Simile

Situational irony

Auditory imagery

Foreshadowing
15 Basing the Monkey King's story on a folk tale is an example of what literary device?
Allusion

Simile

Metonymy

Foreshadowing
16 Which option is NOT one of the novel's major themes?
Discontent

These are all applicable themes

Racial Discrimination

Transformation
17 When Mrs. Greeder reprimands Timmy but then suggests that Jin's family used to eat dogs, it is an example of what type of irony?
Dramatic

Auditory

Verbal

Situational
18 What literary device is at play when Tze-Yo-Tzuh reveals that the five gold pillars were his hand?
Dramatic irony

Foreshadowing

Situational irony

Parallelism
19 When the Monkey King smells his own fur, it is an example of what type of imagery?
Kinesthetic

Olfactory

Visual

Auditory
20 The clacking sound of the herbalist's abacus is an example of what type of imagery?
Olfactory

Auditory

Kinesthetic

Visual
21 When Chin-Kee arrives, he tells Danny he is happy "as ginger root pranted in nutritious manure of well-bred ox." What literary device is contained in Chin-Kee's phrase?
Metaphor

Comparison

Allusion

Simile
22 When Wei-Chen says Jin is "a cowardly little turtle," he is using a:
Simile

Metaphor

Parallelism

Comparison
23 What does Wei-Chen compare Jin's curly hair to?
A wig

Broccoli

Cauliflower

Carrot tops
24 What does Chin-Kee symbolize?
Embarrassing extended family members

Chinese authoritarianism

Racist stereotypes

The pressure to have a good work ethic
25 What does Danny symbolize?
Jin's true identity

Jin's desire to be accepted by the white mainstream

White people's embarrassment of their Chinese cousins

None of these

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