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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. Why is Ma angry at Ba in Chapter 9?

2. What does Minli realize the City of Bright Moonlight is when she arrives?

3. What did the Dragon come to life in?

4. In The Story of the Buffalo Boy's Friend, where does the boy see the beautiful girl?

5. Where does Minli go with the Buffalo Boy in Chapter 21?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Magistrate Tiger meet the Old Man of the Moon in the Story of the Old Man of the Moon?

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

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

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

6. What had one of the soldiers seen on the piece of paper in the Story of the Paper of Happiness?

7. Who do Dragon and Minli encounter in the forest in Chapter 16? What does this creature ask?

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

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

10. How do Ma and Ba feel when they discover Minli has left? What do they do?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the source material or inspiration for the Story of the Paper of Happiness. What is the moral of Ba's story? How does the theme of trust manifest itself in this tale?

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 Xiao Mao and the lions which guard the City of Bright Moonlight. How did the lions come into existence? What character traits do they exhibit?

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