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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. What did the magistrate's son's fiance have on her head?

2. Aunt Jin is supposed to assist who in finding the dragon gate?

3. What does the goldfish tell Minli in Chapter 4?

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

5. The soldier who had gotten a glimpse of the paper in the box in Ba's story in Chapter 15 saw what?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who made the rain start and stop in the Story of Fruitless Mountain? Who were her children? What became of them?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What is the setting at the beginning of Where the Mountain Meets the Moon? Who is present in the opening of the book?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Define the term "parable" and how it relates to the Story of the Old Man of the Moon. Who are the principle characters within the story? Who was Magistrate Tiger and how is he described in the text?

Essay Topic 2

Describe the Story of the Old Man of the Moon and the characters within it. How do the Old Man of the Moon and the Magistrate Tiger compare?

Essay Topic 3

Describe the character of Dragon in the narrative. What role does Dragon play to the plot and to Minli's journey? How did Dragon come into being?

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