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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 did the townspeople used to burn on the altar?

2. How do fishermen paralyze hogfish?

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

4. What did Huong use as bait for eel fishing?

5. Why did the old lady keep a monkey?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Trung react to Lan's disappearance?

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

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

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

5. How did Lan eventually escape the crocodile?

6. How did the peddler catch the fourteen monkeys?

7. How does a fisherman capture a golden eel?

8. How would fisherman catch the hogfish?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Choose one of the following and discuss how it affects the tone of the book and helps to express character and theme.

1. Setting

2. Point of view

3. Structure

4. Language

Essay Topic 3

What the importance of the following animals to the village?

1. Water buffaloes.

2. Monkeys.

3. Otter cubs.

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