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

2. What did the townspeople used to burn on the altar?

3. What member of his family does Nhuong describe as physically weak?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Nhuong and the old man catch the white catfish?

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

3. How did Trung save Lan?

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

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

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

7. Why is a horse snake so dangerous?

8. How did Lan eventually escape the crocodile?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

Identify the main themes of the story. In what way are these themes relevant to the period? How does the author use character and setting to express these themes?

Essay Topic 3

What does the story express about Vietnam before all the conflicts that struck down the country? How did war change Vietnam?

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