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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. Why did the crocodile leave Lan in the first place?

4. How does Nhuong's father alert the community of the presence of the horse snake?

5. Complete the following title "the monkey and the..."

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. How would fisherman catch the hogfish?

7. Why is a horse snake so dangerous?

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

9. How did the crocodile get at Lan?

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

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

Discuss the differences between the novel and autobiography formats. What are the main elements of a book? What are the main elements of an autobiography? What can novelists express that an autobiographer cannot? How can autobiographies keep to the facts while still maintaining a level of entertainment?

Essay Topic 3

Examine the influence of the following people on Nhuong's life. What did each character teach him about life?

1. His cousin.

2. His father.

3. His grandmother.

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