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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. Who made the rain across the land at Fruitless Mountain?
2. What does Minli tell the orphan she needs to find in the City of Bright Moonlight?
3. The moral of Ba's story in Chapter 15 is that the secret of happiness is what?
4. Where is the orphan's hut in the City of Bright Moonlight?
5. What story does Ba tell in Chapter 15?
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. What does Minli lament about her family? What does she do to change it in Chapter 2?
3. How did Magistrate Tiger meet the Old Man of the Moon in the Story of the Old Man of the Moon?
4. Who do Dragon and Minli encounter in the forest in Chapter 16? What does this creature ask?
5. 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?
6. Who does Minli first meet in the City of Bright Moonlight? What news does he relate to her?
7. What is the moral of the Story of the Paper of Happiness? What does the story make Ma and Ba decide?
8. How did Magistrate Tiger's son end up marrying the grocer's daughter? What is the moral of this story?
9. Where does the Buffalo Boy Live? What story does he relate?
10. Where does Minli go when she leaves the Village of Fruitless Mountain? What leads her way?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe the themes and symbolism in the Story of the Buffalo Boy's Friend. How old is the girl the Buffalo Boy meets? What is the moral of the Buffalo Boy's story?
Essay Topic 2
Define the term "protagonist" and how this role relates to Minli in the narrative. What is Minli's quest? How does she go about beginning her journey?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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