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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 does grandmother love attending?

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

3. How does Nhuong's father alert the community of the presence of the horse snake?

4. What did the son do for a living?

5. What slipped through the log barrier to attack Lan?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. How Nyoung's grandmother protect her husband in the restaurant?

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

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

9. How did Trung save Lan?

10. How does a fisherman capture a golden eel?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How would it have effected Nhuong and his family's life if the thieves had managed to steal Tank? Why is Tank so loyal to the family and the village, and what does this say about buffloas in general?

Essay Topic 2

Examine the book's chronological setting.

1. What were the main concerns during the 1940s? How does the author express these concerns?

2. How would the author change the book if it was set in today's society?

Essay Topic 3

What was Tank's role as a buffalo in his herd? Why did Tank become so important to the village?

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