Reading Check and Short Answer questions on key points are designed for guided reading assignments, in-class review, formative assessment, quizzes, and more.

Chapters 1-2

Reading Check

1. What is Willis’s job?

2. What role does Willis say all Asian males aspire to?

3. Who was the best kung fu student that Willis’s father ever had?

4. What is above the Golden Palace restaurant?

5. What did Willis’s mother make him promise not to aspire to?

6. Which of Willis’s neighbors dies in Chapter 2?

Short Answer

Answer each question in at least 1 complete sentence. Incorporate details from the text to support your response.

1. In Chapter 1, what point does Willis make about different degrees of poverty?

2. What are Willis’s parents’ marital and living situations?

3. What are the multiple meanings suggested by the title of the television show that shoots in Willis’s neighborhood?

4. From context, what is it reasonable to assume that the abbreviation “INT.” stands for in the title “ACT II: INT. GOLDEN PALACE”?

5. When Willis describes his father singing the John Denver song “Country Roads,” what is he suggesting about the feelings of the older generation of his community?

6. What is especially upsetting to Willis about watching his father deliver his lines in the Chapter 2 episode of Black and White?