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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What kind of animal was it said the horse snake was as fast as?
(a) A leopard.
(b) A cheetah.
(c) A hog.
(d) A horse.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why did Nhuong's cousin become a hero?

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

4. Who does Nhuong's mother tell the old lady a story about?

5. What does grandmother love attending?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Lang and Trung persuade their families that they should marry?

2. Why does Nhuong have to keep his otter in a cage?

3. How did Nhuong's grandmother entertain herself in her old age?

4. How did the hunters eventually kill the horse snake?

5. Why is a horse snake so dangerous?

6. Describe the opera Nhuong and his grandmother attend in this section?

7. How did Lan eventually escape the crocodile?

8. What had the horse fish done in an attempt to get to the fish in the pond?

9. How did grandmother cause the town to fear her husband?

10. Why did Trung and Lan's family split them up?

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