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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. Who was once a powerful and ruthless magistrate?
(a) Magistrate Ba.
(b) Magistrate Eagle.
(c) Magistrate Dragon.
(d) Magistrate Tiger.

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

3. What story does Ba tell in Chapter 15?
(a) The Story of the Paper of Enchantment.
(b) The Story of the Paper of Accomplishment.
(c) The Story of the Paper of Happiness.
(d) The Story of the Paper of Knowledge.

4. Who do Ma and Ba meet in the forest in Chapter 9?
(a) The Goldfish Seller.
(b) Magistrate Tiger.
(c) Minli.
(d) Jade Dragon.

5. Fruitless Mountain, Ba says, will only grow green when what happens?
(a) The Rain's of Good Fortune come.
(b) The sun comes out.
(c) Jade Dragon's curse is lifted.
(d) Jade Dragon is reunited with her children.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who made the rain across the land at Fruitless Mountain?

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

3. Who was the man who refused to bow to the powerful magistrate?

4. What name does Minli call her mother?

5. What did the official tell the family they must place in a box in Ba's story in Chapter 15?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does the Buffalo Boy Live? What story does he relate?

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

3. What led to the dragon coming to life in Dragon's Story?

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

5. If the first level of the book is the plot line of Minli and her family, what is the second level of the narrative?

6. How did the dragon first come to consciousness?

7. Where does Minli go with the Buffalo Boy in Chapter 21? Who does Minli run into there? What does he do?

8. Why does the dragon tell Minli he was trapped in Chapter 11? Who trapped him?

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

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

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