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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 Kuan-yin give to Tripitaka to give to Monkey?

2. What do the judges send Ts'ui Chio to find?

3. What is the monster's real name?

4. What are all the monkeys' weapons made from?

5. What attacks Kuan-yin and Hui-yen at the first river?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Tripitaka need to control Monkey?

2. How does Kuan-yin get the monster onto her side?

3. How does Kuan-Yin persuade the monster to join Buddha?

4. Why do the farmers want Monkey and Tripitaka to help them?

5. How does Monkey escape death?

6. Why does Kuan-yin think Hsuan Tsang will make a good script seeker?

7. Why does the Stone Monkey return to his brethren?

8. How does Monkey get weapons for his brethren?

9. How does Ts'ui add twenty years to the Emperor's life?

10. How does Wen-ch'iao save her child?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine the book's chronological setting.

1. What were the main concerns during the 1500s? How does the author express these concerns?

2. How would the author change the book if it was set in today's society?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss elements of the narrative structure; Exposition, conflict, complication, climax, resolution and conclusion. Do all the elements make for a logical and linear story? How does the story's structure express the book's themes?

Essay Topic 3

Ch'Eng-En Wu gives some of his characters names relating to the Buddhist religion. Pick one of the following names and examine what meaning their name gives to their character and the story in general:

1. Tripitaka,

2. Bodhisattva

3. Subhuti.

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