A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

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A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 111 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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. When does the story that Miss Noi tells about her life take place?

2. In Chapter 2, when did the narrator’s grandfather die?

3. On what street does Miss Noi work?

4. Where did Miss Noi live when she first came to the United States?

5. In Chapter 7, what did the voodoo man give the narrator to put at the man’s house who was having an affair with the narrator’s wife?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Thieu and the former President of the former Republic of Vietnam have in common?

2. What happens to the narrator in Chapter 7 when he tries to throw a hog’s bladder over his rival’s house?

3. What does Francine say about her name?

4. Who accompanies Mr. Chinh on the airplane?

5. What does Thieu remember about the time when Saigon fell?

6. Why did it take so long to get Francine and her mother out of Vietnam?

7. What was Miss Noi’s apartment like in Saigon?

8. What does Mr. Chinh say about cars he has driven in his lifetime?

9. Why is it important to make the right sound in the Vietnamese language?

10. What does Thieu do for a living?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In the novel, the younger generation seems to have few or no ties to Vietnam.

a. In Chapter 5, how does Bill’s dad feel about his son being more American than Vietnamese?

b. In Chapter 15, how does Dao feel about everyone except his oldest daughter?

c. Do these men feel that holding onto their heritage is important?

d. Why does the next generation feel that their heritage is not important?

Essay Topic 2

In Chapter 8, the myth of an emperor who goes to the moon is told. What did the emperor find on the moon? Why did he leave? Why did he begin holding a festival on the fifteenth day of the eight month? In what way did the narrator say that she traveled to the moon? What did she find there? What does she think of the world where she lives now? Is she content in the world where she lives?

Essay Topic 3

The stories in Chapters 8 and 9 are similar. To whom are the narrators speaking? What myths and stories do the narrators share? How do these myths and stories shape the way that the narrators view life? What have the narrators lost? Do both narrators find something to replace what they lost?

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