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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hodja borrow in "The Hodja and the Cauldron"?

2. What does the man in "The Prayer that was Answered," pretend to be?

3. In "The Tall Tales," whom do the tricksters try to trick?

4. In "Coyote Fights a Lump of Pitch," whom does the Coyote trick into taking his place?

5. How are the pickpockets related in "The Two Pickpockets"?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the Hodja walk out of the service the first time in "Nars-ed-Din Hodja in the Pulpit "?

2. In "The Hodja and the Cauldron," how does the Hodja manage to keep the cauldron?

3. Why is the king in "Quevedo and the King" mad at Quevedo?

4. Why is no one in "Being Greedy Chokes Anansi" allowed to say the word five?

5. Describe the prophecy in "The Birth of Finn MacCumhail."

6. The king wants to decide who is more clever in "Merry Prank." Which characters are considered by the king? Who is victorious?

7. What does the servant tell his lord at the end of "Helping to Lie"?

8. What makes the poet in "Wagging My Tail in the Mud" truly happy?

9. Into what does the oldest man in "The Seventh Father of the House"' fit?

10. Why do the townspeople in "Chelm Justice" not want to hang the shoe mender?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the conflict in "Being Greedy Chokes Anansi." Explain the conflict in context to the plot and to the characters.

Essay Topic 2

Occasionally, the folktales in Yolen's collection contain a moral or lesson. Choose a folktale and discuss what the moral is and how it is effectively demonstrated in the plot.

Essay Topic 3

Choose one of the folktales in Yolen's book and address the subject of voice. Describe which person the folktale is written in and who is the main voice of the story.

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