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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 is the name of Turng's wife?

2. Who did Nhuong use to drag eels from their nests?

3. How did the monkey kill the child?

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

5. What normally had separated the bathing area from dangerous animals?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the son die from the bamboo bed?

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

3. How does a fisherman capture a golden eel?

4. How did Grandmother save her family form bandits?

5. How did the crocodile get at Lan?

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

7. How did the peddler teach monkey to eat rice with a spoon?

8. How would grandmother get the doctor to give her his most powerful medicine?

9. How did the monkey kill the butcher's child?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is Nhoung's relationship with his grandmother? How does her death affect him and how does he express his feelings within the narrative?

Essay Topic 2

What is important for someone like Nhuong to learn in a village so close to wild animals? What does he still have to learn by the end of the book?

Essay Topic 3

How do the humans and animals interact with each other? What problems would modern readers have with some treatment of the animals at the hands of humans? How could Nhuong justify his treatment of animals in the book?

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