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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 do the animals decide to buy in "Why the Hare Runs Away"?

2. How many tribes exist at the start of "How Men and Women Got Together"?

3. What happens in "Being Greedy Chokes Anansi" when the forbidden word is spoken?

4. What does Ansai ask people to count in "Being Greedy Chokes Anansi"?

5. What is "The Fly" about?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Catherine trick her husband in "Catherine, Sly Country Lass"?

3. Describe how men and women came together in "How Men and Women Got Together."

4. What does the sky god in "How Spider Obtained the Sky God's Stories" want in exchange for stories?

5. In "Glooscap and the Baby" how does the baby defeat Glooscap?

6. Why does "The King's Favorite" fall from grace?

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

8. Who marries the princess in "Crack and Crook"? Why?

9. How does the dragon in the story "The Longwitton Dragon" protect himself?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain the reasoning for Yolen's choice to organize her book. What is the structural benefit of the organization? Is it cohesive?

Essay Topic 2

Define the term prophecy and how it relates to "The Birth of Finn MacCumhail."

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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