Name that Character
Who kills Mitt in Native Speaker?
c. a group of local kids
Which author centers their writings on cultural differences between Indians and Indian Americans?
b. Jhumpa Lahiri
Which of the following texts references a Hindu goddess to discuss the experiences of Asian American women?
a. Native Speaker
b. “Invisibility is an Unnatural Disaster”
c. “Gruel”
d. “Kali-fornia”
d. "Kali-fornia"
A ______________ refers to a fictitious prose narrative of book length, typically representing character(s) and action(s) with some degree of realism.
a. poem
b. novel
c. comic
d. report
b. novel
______________ is one of the three major genres of literature and often involves patterns of rhyme, syntax, and meter.
a. poetry
b. fiction
c. nonfiction
d. fantasy
a. poetry
What character in Native Speaker slaps Sherrie?
c. Kwang
Which author argues that Asian Americans are often “invisible”?
a. Yamada
Which text uses juxtaposing imagery of submissive and sexualized women to talk about Asian American female stereotypes?
a. "Kali-fornia"
______________ refers to the time and place of the action in a work of fiction, poetry, or drama.
a. setting
b. plot
c. theme
d. poetry
a. setting
______________ ______________ occurs when the last words in two or more lines of poetry rhyme with each other.
a. rhyme scheme
b. end rhyme
c. alliteration
d. assonance
b. end rhyme
Who does Mrs. Das confess the truth of her affair and illegitimate child to in “Interpreter of the Maladies”?
c. Mr. Kapasi
Which author critiques the Marie Kondo method in reference to family artifacts?
d. Yamashita
In which text does the author go on a road trip to visit WWII Japanese Internment camps throughout the U.S.?
d. "KonMarimasu"
______________ ______________ refers to an ideal that the U.S. is a land of opportunity that allows for upward mobility, freedom, and equality for people who work hard enough.
a. Immigrant Dream
b. Assimilation theory
c. Bootstrap theory
d. American Dream
d. American Dream
______________ refers to the process by which immigrants or groups of people adopt the dominant culture of a society and lose their own cultural traits.
a. Adaptation
b. American Dream
c. Assimilation
d. diaspora
c. Assimilation
In Lahiri’s “Interpreter of the Maladies,” which animals are the children most fascinated with throughout the story?
d. monkeys
Which author uses imagery of fire to symbolize the “death and rebirth” (new beginnings) of Asian American immigrants?
d. Chin
Which text incorporates riddles about animals to argue that we all have something to learn from our ancestors.
b. "The End of a Beginning"
In a poem, the ______________ refers to the person who voices the poem.
a. narrator
b. poet
c. speaker
d. author
c. speaker
______________ refers to a person being compelled [forced] or choosing to live in a foreign country or a place not regarded as home.
a. transition
b. immigration
c. diaspora
d. exile
d. exile
In Yamada’s “Invisibility is an Unnatural Disaster,” which group is angry when they learn that Asian American women are oppressed?
a. the white students
Which author was told that it was OK for them to be a pacifist because “it didn’t make any difference to anyone”?
c. Yamada
In which text is communication, or lack thereof, one of the main themes?
"Interpreter of the Maladies"
______________ ______________ ______________ is a “theory of the flesh” that centers the lived experiences of women of color as an interpretive framework.
a. The borderland theory
b. U.S. Third-World feminism
c. The postmodern theory
d. Asian American feminism
b. U.S. Third-World feminism
ONLY BONUS
______________ refers to the state of being confined as a prisoner, especially for political or military reasons.
a. refugee
b. convict
c. internment
d. exile
c. internment