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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did the old lady react to the death of the monkey?
(a) She cried.
(b) She slapped the man.
(c) She fainted.
(d) She laughed.

2. How did the monkey ruin the old lady's life?
(a) Burned down her house.
(b) Killed her baby.
(c) Took all her medication.
(d) Threw her savings into the river.

3. How did Grandma get the doctor to give her his most powerful medicine?
(a) She gave him large tips.
(b) She cried until he gave him.
(c) She threatened to tell his superior that he he was sleeping with his patients.
(d) She forced her family to look sad when he arrived.

4. Where does an eel build his nest?
(a) Under the sand.
(b) In the bottom of trees.
(c) In holes it makes in the riverbank.
(d) In the mud beneath the water.

5. What had been placed over the son's head when the mother visited him at his cot?
(a) A banyan leaf.
(b) A dead hog.
(c) Vine leaves.
(d) Tree leaves.

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

7. What did Trung think Lan was when he saw her on the island from a distance?
(a) A bush.
(b) A tree.
(c) An ape.
(d) A bamboo cane.

8. Why did everyone assume Nhuong's grandfather was a great karate expert?
(a) Grandma told everyone he taught her karate.
(b) He was always passively aggressive.
(c) His father was a karate expert.
(d) He was always weraing a karate suit with a black belt.

9. What did Trung's mother realize Trung should marry Lan?
(a) When he threatened to kill himself after she had been offered a place at university.
(b) When he cried when she forgot his birthday.
(c) When he spoke her name in his sleep.
(d) When he met her in secret.

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

11. During what season did Nhuong and his cousin like to catch fish?
(a) The sunny season.
(b) The rainy season.
(c) The windy season.
(d) The tornado season.

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

13. What kind of snake does the author say the horse snake grew as large as?
(a) An adder.
(b) A brown snake.
(c) A python.
(d) A rattle snake.

14. Why did everyone in Trung's family think he was going mad?
(a) He decided to hunt for the crocodile that killed Lan.
(b) He kept on hearing Lan's voice.
(c) He kept on talking to himself.
(d) He kept on trying to take his own life.

15. What did Huong use as bait for eel fishing?
(a) Snakes.
(b) Maggots.
(c) Ducklings.
(d) Earth worms.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did the old lady keep with her after the monkey had ruined her life?

3. How did grandmother eventually die?

4. What is the name of Turng's wife?

5. What kind of fish does the horse snake become intoxicated by?

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