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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 2: Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the intended message of the page 32 illustrations of children playing and Jin sitting at a table?
(a) Jin is rejected by the other children.
(b) Jin takes a long time to finish his lunch.
(c) Jin does not know how to play the games the others play.
(d) Jin does not like the people in his new school.

2. Why does Jin's mother visit the herbalist?
(a) So that Jin can learn to speak Mandarin.
(b) For allergy treatment.
(c) The herbalist's wife is her best friend.
(d) She is trying to learn herbalism.

3. What does the story say the Monkey King was "born of" (9)?
(a) Water.
(b) Rock.
(c) Fire.
(d) Lightening.

4. When Jin is little, what does he call his mother?
(a) Muqin.
(b) Mommy.
(c) Ama.
(d) Ma-ma.

5. How do the monkeys' faces look when the Monkey King announces that he is leaving for the evening?
(a) Surprised.
(b) Suspicious.
(c) Mischievous.
(d) Unhappy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the probable purpose of Jin's mother's story about the mother and son long ago in China?

2. What does Jin's friendship with Peter Garbinsky show about Jin?

3. What are the gods depicted eating on page 7?

4. Why do all of the other kids in Jin's apartment building come to his apartment on Saturday mornings?

5. What made heaven first notice the Monkey King?

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