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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 killed the mother's husband in the altar on the roadside story?

2. What did Lan used to help Trung's mother to fix?

3. How do fishermen paralyze hogfish?

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

5. What is the title of the first chapter in this section?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How did the crocodile get at Lan?

5. Why does Nhuong have to keep his otter in a cage?

6. How did the peddler catch the fourteen monkeys?

7. How did Lan eventually escape the crocodile?

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

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

10. How did Grandmother save her family form bandits?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Away from the main character, examine the way the author uses the other characters in the book. When does he introduce and take them away from the story? What effect does it have on the story?

Essay Topic 2

Describe the problems caused by the following animals.

1. Wild hogs.

2. Tigers.

3. Horse snakes.

How do the village try to combat the problems these animals cause?

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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