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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Difficult Path.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator of "How to Transform" say he learned in the end?
(a) Always work to improve.
(b) When a quiet person offers advice, you take it.
(c) Do not talk back to cops.
(d) When your father takes you to the gym every day, you say thank you.

2. In "The Difficult Path," what is the passage from Li Po about?
(a) The ocean.
(b) The forest.
(c) War.
(d) A great storm.

3. In "A Difficult Path," what does Dihan suggest they do with Bisi?
(a) Trade her to other pirates.
(b) Throw her overboard.
(c) Eat her.
(d) Make her a part of the crew.

4. How old is the narrator when she learns to read?
(a) 12.
(b) 4.
(c) 6.
(d) 10.

5. In "The Difficult Path," what condition does the narrator's mother set when she sells her?
(a) That her hair never be cut.
(b) That she be taught to read.
(c) That she be allowed to marry the Li's son.
(d) That she sleep on a bed made of goose feathers.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "A Difficult Path," why does the pirate captain decide to allow the narrator to stay on board?

2. In "How to Transform," who takes the narrator to his father's factory to prove who he is?

3. In "A Difficult Path," what is unusual about the pirate ship's captain?

4. In "How to Transform," when the narrator finally gets into a game, who is he supposed to guard?

5. In "The Difficult Path," what terrifies Shuwan?

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