TRUE/FALSE QUESTION PRACTICE

NAMES AND IDENTITY

Something about myself? How do I summarize, in thirty seconds,
everything which adds up and equals a neat little bundle called Me?
How do I present myself in a user-friendly format, complete with “Help”
buttons and batteries? Who am I, and why do I matter to any of you?

5 First of all, I am a girl who wandered the aisles of Toys “R” Us for two hours, hunting in
vain for a doll with a yellowish skin tone. I am a girl who sat on the cold bathroom floor
at seven in the morning, cutting out the eyes of Caucasian models in magazines, trying
to fit them on my face. I am the girl who loved [newscaster] Connie Chung because she
was Asian, and I’m also the girl who hated Connie Chung because she wasn’t Asian
10 enough…

During that time I also first heard the term “chink,” and I wondered why people were
calling me “a narrow opening, usually in a wall.” People expected me to love studying
and to enjoy sitting in my room memorizing facts for days and days.

While I was growing up, I did not understand what it meant to be “Chinese” or
15 “American.” Do these terms link only to citizenship? Do they suggest that people fit the
profile of either “typical Chinese” or “typical Americans”? And who or what determines
when a person starts feeling American, and stops feeling Chinese?

I eventually shunned the Asian crowds. And I hated Chinatown with a vengeance. I
hated the noise, the crush of bodies, the yells of mothers to fathers to children to uncles
20 to aunts to cousins. I hated the limp vegetables hanging out of soggy cardboard boxes.
I hated the smell of fish being chopped, of meat hanging in a window. I hated not
understanding their language in depth—the language of my ancestors, which was also
supposed to be mine to mold and master.

I am still not a citizen of the United States of America, this great nation, which is hailed
25 as the destination for generations of people, the promised land for millions. I flee at the
mere hint of teenybopper music. I stare blankly at my friends when they mention the
1980s or share stories of their parents as hippies. And I hate baseball.

The question lingers: Am I Chinese? Am I American? Or am I some unholy mixture of

both, doomed to stay torn between the two?

30 I don’t know if I’ll ever find the answers. Meanwhile, it’s my turn to introduce myself . . .

I stand up and say, “My name is Jennifer Wang,” and then I sit back down. There are no
other words that define me as well as those do. No others show me being stretched
between two very different cultures and places—the “Jennifer” clashing with the “Wang,”
the “Wang” fighting with the “Jennifer.
Taken from: https://www.facinghistory.org/holocaust-and-human-behavior/chapter-1/names-and-identity
Picture taken from: https://www.ronitbaras.com/emotional-intelligence/personal-development/my-name-is-my-identity/
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Text A — Names and Identity

The following statements are either true or false. Tick the correct option then justify it using words as
they appear in the text. Both parts are required for [1 mark].

Example: The author has difficulty explaining who she is.

True False

Justification: .. How do I present myself in a user-friendly format.

1. The author was successful in finding a doll which looked Asian. [1]

True False

Justification: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

2. Her friends assumed that she was passionate about learning. [1]

True False

Justification: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

3. The author ultimately avoided people of her own race. [1]

True False

Justification: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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4. She holds an American citizenship. [1]

True False

Justification: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

5. She believes that her name best shows how she is torn between being an American and a Chinese. [1]

True False

Justification: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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ANSWER KEY

Qn Target Answer Do not accept

1. False ‘hunting in vain for a doll’
‘hunting in vain for a doll with a yellowish skin tone’
2. True ‘People expected me to love studying
‘People expected me to love studying’ and to enjoy sitting in my room
memorizing facts for days and days.’
3. True ‘I hated Chinatown with a vengeance’
‘I eventually shunned the Asian crowds’
4. False ‘I am still not a citizen of the United
‘(I am) still not a citizen of the United States of States of America, this great nation,
America’ which is hailed as the destination for
generations of people, the promised
land for millions.’
5. True ‘There are no other words that define
‘no other words that define me as well (as those do)’ me as well as those do’