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

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

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

4. What can the device Minli makes tell her?

5. Dragon is over how many years old?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. 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?

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

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

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

Define the term "theme" as it applies to literature. How is "greed" a theme in the narrative? How does Minli use the monkeys' greed against them in Chapter 14?

Essay Topic 2

Define the literary elements of symbolism and metaphor. What are examples of symbolism in the King's story? What are examples of metaphors?

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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