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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the magistrate find when he went to the family's home in Ba's story in Chapter 15?
(a) Cats had taken over.
(b) There were other people living there.
(c) It had burnt down.
(d) The family was gone.

2. Where do Dragon and Minli decide that Minli should enter alone in Chapter 16?
(a) The City of Bright Moonlight.
(b) The Village of the Moon Rain.
(c) Never-Ending Mountain.
(d) The Moon.

3. Who asks Ba to tell a story in Chapter 15?
(a) The Goldfish.
(b) A-Fu.
(c) Dragon.
(d) The Old Man of the Moon.

4. What is the dragon's gate?
(a) A river.
(b) A waterfall.
(c) A cave.
(d) A rainbow.

5. Where can the King and his palace be found in the City of Bright Moonlight?
(a) Uptown.
(b) Inner City.
(c) Downtown.
(d) Outer City.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to the paper in the box in Ba's story in Chapter 15?

2. What does Minli leave for her parents before departing in Chapter 4?

3. Where does Minli go to sleep in Chapter 6?

4. Who did the magistrate think his son was marrying?

5. Where is the orphan's hut in the City of Bright Moonlight?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who does Minli first meet in the City of Bright Moonlight? What news does he relate to her?

2. What actions do Minli and Dragon take in Chapters 13 and 14? Why is their passage through the forest blocked?

3. What does Minli lament about her family? What does she do to change it in Chapter 2?

4. Where does Minli go when she leaves the Village of Fruitless Mountain? What leads her way?

5. In the King's story in Chapter 23, who had torn a page from the Book of Fortune? What did it say?

6. What did the Magistrate send an official to the family's house for in the Story of the Paper of Happiness?

7. How did the dragon first come to consciousness?

8. Why is Fruitless Mountain fruitless, according to Ba? How will it turn green?

9. What does Minli discuss with the King in Chapter 23? What story does the King tell?

10. How does Minli overcome the monkeys in Chapter 14?

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