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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. In what month is the Swing Festival?

2. Who is the head of the Chinese government?

3. What two characters promise to be friends forever?

4. When Li-yan finds San-pa sleeping in the street at Menghai, what does she realize he has taken?

5. Why are twins the worst taboo in Akha culture?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the two types of tea Mr. Huang tries to develop?

2. What are the three styles Li-yan's brothers use to grow their tea?

3. What is the Swing Festival?

4. How does Teacher Zhang try to help Li-yan?

5. What is the gaokao?

6. Why are Li-yan and San-pa going to Thailand to live instead of staying in China?

7. Why is it ironic that Li-yan acts as translator for the village elders?

8. Li-yan lies about the dog in her dream. What does the dog on the roof really signify?

9. What makes Li-yan's mother different from the other women of their village and others in the area?

10. Why was Li-yan surprised her father asked about her dream?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the meaning of the Akha saying, "If you strike with the right hand, you must soothe with the left"?

Essay Topic 2

What does ceremony which includes the chicken, the goat, and a coin represent, and why does Li-yan not explain its significance to Jin?

Essay Topic 3

In A Dog On The Roof, the reader learns about the Akha people and their beliefs. What does the aphorism, "No coincidence, no story," (3) infer about the tribe's cultural traditions? What are the coincidences in Part I? Are they believable?

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