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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What character is the chapter Opera, Karate and Bandits dedicated to?
(a) Nhuong's cousin.
(b) Grandmother.
(c) Minh.
(d) Nhuong.

2. What does the narrator name the person who insults his grandfather at the restaurant?
(a) A bull.
(b) A goat.
(c) A rascal.
(d) A fool.

3. Why is an eel so prized by fisherman?
(a) It is worth alot of money.
(b) It is delicious to eat.
(c) Its skin makes for strong shoes.
(d) It is a sacred creature.

4. What is the title of the first chapter in this section?
(a) Little Altar on the roadside.
(b) A Utopian Vision.
(c) Finding One's Self.
(d) Funny Birds.

5. What had Lan dressed herself in?
(a) Leaves.
(b) Tiger skin.
(c) Coconut shells.
(d) Crocodile skin.

6. How would an eel try to kill an adult duck?
(a) Poison it and then come back for it later.
(b) Bite its foot and pull it under the water.
(c) Lure it into the deeper parts of the water and then kill it.
(d) Bite off its feet so it would drown on its own.

7. What did the son do for a living?
(a) Baking.
(b) Running a bar.
(c) Buying and selling.
(d) Woodcutting.

8. Who would always play the hero in grandmas' plays?
(a) Her grandchildren.
(b) Her children.
(c) Her brother.
(d) Her husband.

9. How did grandmother eventually die?
(a) She died of a stoke.
(b) She died of a heart attack.
(c) She died of the flu.
(d) She died in her sleep.

10. What did the son use to make a wedding bed?
(a) Feathers.
(b) Vines.
(c) Bamboo sticks.
(d) Sugar cane.

11. What normally had separated the bathing area from dangerous animals?
(a) A log barrier.
(b) A mud bank.
(c) A net.
(d) A metal barrier.

12. What slipped through the log barrier to attack Lan?
(a) A horse snake.
(b) A crocodile.
(c) A hog.
(d) A tiger.

13. Where did Lan take her bath?
(a) The lake.
(b) The river.
(c) Her pond.
(d) The ocean.

14. Why did Nhuong's cousin become a hero?
(a) He killed a wild hog.
(b) He saved a child from a python.
(c) He saved an old woman from a tiger.
(d) He killed a horse snake.

15. What kind of creature covered the man's face?
(a) A rat.
(b) A mouse.
(c) A at.
(d) A dog.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the townspeople used to burn on the altar?

2. Why did everyone assume Nhuong's grandfather was a great karate expert?

3. According to tradition, what does a banyan leaf usually cover?

4. What kind of profession did the mother want her son to move into?

5. Where did grandma elbow the rascal?

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