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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. How does Mistress Yan keep Song in the room with Poxi?

2. How does Old Jin save Lu Da?

3. Who does Song Jiang tell the bandits not to harm in Chapter 35?

4. What does Shi Xiu show Clever Cloud?

5. What are Chao Gai and his men disguised as?

Short Essay Questions

1. What reasons does Wu Song give Song Jiang that the two should not travel together?

2. How do Yang Zhi and Lu Da take over Precious Pearl Monastery?

3. What reasons does Wu Song give Song Jiang that the two should not travel together?

4. What does Lu Da tell the waiter at the Pan family tavern to do?

5. Why does Shi En, the prison guard, treat Wu Song so well while he is in jail?

6. How does Wu Song become a constable in Qinche?

7. How does Coroner Ho know that Wu the Elder has been poisoned?

8. Describe Li Kui.

9. Why does Song Jiang not want to be part of a group of bandits?

10. What does Wu Song's principal "Don't pass one without having three" mean?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the role of superstition in the novel.

Essay Topic 2

Prepare a character sketch for Gao Qui.

Essay Topic 3

Prepare a character sketch for Song Jiang. Include a physical description, description of his moral values in addition to his role in the action of the novel.

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