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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. Where does Ba say is the only place the Old Man of the Moon can be found?

2. Who does Minli meet in the City of Bright Moonlight?

3. What does Dragon say there is enough of for everyone in the forest?

4. Who asks Ba to tell a story in Chapter 15?

5. What did the magistrate find when he went to the family's home in Ba's story in Chapter 15?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the dragon first come to consciousness?

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

3. 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?

4. If the first level of the book is the plot line of Minli and her family, what is the second level of the narrative?

5. What does Minli think of the Buffalo Boy's friend when she meets her?

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

7. What does Minli feel guilty for in Chapter 3? What does she do about it?

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

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

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

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 "exposition" and "rising action." How do these elements help to form the plot line in a literary narrative? How has the level of tension changed in Chapters 21 and 22?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the theme of friendship in Where the Mountain Meets the Moon. How many friends does Minli meet along her journey? How do Dragon's actions prove his friendship?

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