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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 does the goldfish seller say his goldfish will bring?

2. What does Ba say is trapped in Fruitless Mountain?

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

4. Who was the man who refused to bow to the powerful magistrate?

5. The dragon's gate leads to an entrance way to what?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. What does the goldfish seller tell Ma and Ba in Chapter 12? Who was Lao Lao?

3. What does Minli discover when she enters the City of Bright Moonlight?

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

5. Where does Minli go with the Buffalo Boy in Chapter 21? Who does Minli run into there? What does he do?

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

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

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

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

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

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 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

Define the term "parable" and how it relates to the Story of the Old Man of the Moon. Who are the principle characters within the story? Who was Magistrate Tiger and how is he described in the text?

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