View a FREE sample

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) It had burnt down.
(c) The family was gone.
(d) There were other people living there.

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

3. What does Minli find trapped under ropes in Chapter 8?
(a) A bird.
(b) A cat.
(c) A dragon.
(d) A dog.

4. How many coins does Minli own in the beginning of the book?
(a) 2.
(b) 0.
(c) 1.
(d) 3.

5. What do Ma and Ba conclude they should do after Ba's story in Chapter 15?
(a) Distrust Minli.
(b) Trust Minli.
(c) Trust Dragon.
(d) Distrust Dragon.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Dragon carry Minli through the river in Chapter 13?

2. What does the beggar eat in the market in Chapter 21?

3. How often does the Inner City open in the City of Bright Moonlight?

4. Dragon is over how many years old?

5. Who asks Ba to tell a story in Chapter 15?

Short Essay Questions

1. What story does the goldfish ask Ba to tell in Chapter 15? Who is in the story?

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

3. How did the dragon first come to consciousness?

4. What happened when Lao Lao took sweets and wine to the Old Man of the Moon? What do Ma and Ba conclude from the story?

5. How did Magistrate Tiger's son end up marrying the grocer's daughter? What is the moral of this story?

6. What does the goldfish seller tell Ma and Ba in Chapter 12? Who was Lao Lao?

7. What does Minli think of the Buffalo Boy's friend when she meets her?

8. What news did the Old Man of the Moon give to Magistrate Tiger in the Story of the Old Man of the Moon? How did Magistrate Tiger react?

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

10. What does Minli discover when she enters the City of Bright Moonlight?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 940 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample