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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. What happened to the paper in the box in Ba's story in Chapter 15?

3. What does Minli realize the City of Bright Moonlight is when she arrives?

4. What do Ma and Ba conclude they should do after Ba's 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 do Ma and Ba feel when they discover Minli has left? What do they do?

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

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

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

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

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

7. Why is Fruitless Mountain fruitless, according to Ba? How will it turn green?

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

9. What does Minli lament about her family? What does she do to change it in Chapter 2?

10. What is the setting at the beginning of Where the Mountain Meets the Moon? Who is present in the opening of the book?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the narrative voice and tense of the novel. In what person is Where the Mountain Meets the Moon written? Is it in present tense or past tense? How does this affect the story?

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

Describe the characters of the fish and Aunt Jin and their role in the narrative. What magical elements are foretold in the fish's story?

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