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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. The official in Ba's story in Chapter 15 told the family that if they didn't comply with orders, what would happen?

2. The soldier who had gotten a glimpse of the paper in the box in Ba's story in Chapter 15 saw what?

3. What does the dragon's gate have the magical ability to do?

4. What does Minli cook in Chapter 14?

5. What does Minli decide to use against the monkeys in Chapter 14?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What story does the goldfish ask Ba to tell in Chapter 15? Who is in the story?

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

7. What is the moral of the Story of the Paper of Happiness? What does the story make Ma and Ba decide?

8. Where does Minli go when she leaves the Village of Fruitless Mountain? What leads her way?

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

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

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 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 3

Discuss the characters of the goldfish seller and his fortuneteller grandmother, Lao Lao. What is the moral of the goldfish seller's story? How does the goldfish seller play into the plot of the novel?

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