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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 role would grandmother play in her plays?

2. What had been placed over the son's head when the mother visited him at his cot?

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

4. What kind of lamp attracted the horse snake?

5. What kind of animal was it said the horse snake was as fast as?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did Grandmother save her family form bandits?

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

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

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

6. How did the crocodile get at Lan?

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

8. How does a fisherman capture a golden eel?

9. How did Trung save Lan?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe how villagers manage the following in Nhoung's hamlet.

1. Buying and selling goods.

2. Traveling.

3. Making a living.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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?

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