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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 do Dragon and Minli feast on in the forest in Chapter 16?

2. What does Minli give the beggar in the market in Chapter 21?

3. Pearl is the child of whom?

4. What can the device Minli makes tell her?

5. What appears and asks whether Dragon is Aunt Jin in Chapter 16?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Who does the beggar turn out to be in Chapter 22?

7. What is the moral of the Story of the Paper of Happiness? What does the story make Ma and Ba decide?

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

9. 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?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Where is the setting at the beginning of Where the Mountain Meets the Moon? In what country does the narrative take place? Is there an indication of the time period? How is Minli's village described?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss and describe the motif of magic in Where the Mountain Meets the Moon. What magical elements have been revealed in the story? How do these elements relate to Chinese folklore?

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