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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was found inside the bed's bamboo stalks?
(a) An eel.
(b) A rat.
(c) A snake.
(d) A mouse.

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

4. What kind of theater production did Nhoung and his grandmother attend on New Year's Day?
(a) Opera.
(b) A drama.
(c) A comedy.
(d) A musical.

5. For which of the following reasons did humans keep monkeys?
(a) To send messages.
(b) To do their shopping.
(c) To fish.
(d) To pick coconuts.

6. What evidence did Trung find at the river bank that suggested she had been eaten by a crocodile?
(a) Strands of her hair.
(b) Her ripped clothes.
(c) One of her fingers.
(d) Her blood.

7. What did the townspeople used to burn on the altar?
(a) Incense.
(b) Candles.
(c) Hogs.
(d) People.

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

9. What did Lan used to help Trung's mother to fix?
(a) Jumpers.
(b) Stockings.
(c) Shoes.
(d) Fishing nets.

10. What did the baby snake live off while trapped in the bamboo?
(a) Snails.
(b) Lice.
(c) Ants.
(d) Cockroaches.

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

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

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

14. What were most opera in Vietnam based on in those days?
(a) Chinese mythology.
(b) Japanese mythology.
(c) Bollywood films.
(d) Hollywood films.

15. Why did the old lady keep a monkey?
(a) She needed protection.
(b) She was lonely.
(c) She needed help around the house.
(d) She was a monkey trainer.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where did grandma elbow the rascal?

3. What did the old lady's friend use to kill the monkey?

4. Who does grandmother say once defended himself against a horse snake?

5. What did the peddler brag he could do in a short space of time?

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