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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 had grandma's great uncle taught her?

2. What does grandmother love attending?

3. How did Nhuong's mother think the old lady should have kept her monkey?

4. What does the narrator name the person who insults his grandfather at the restaurant?

5. Where did grandma elbow the rascal?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. How did the monkey burn down the old lady's house?

10. Why is a horse snake so dangerous?

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

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 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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