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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 the monster go back to?

2. What city do the Emperor, Monkey, Tripitaka, Pigsy and Sandy travel to?

3. What does Tripitaka find it difficult to convince the King's son?

4. What do the travelers have to travel across to get to Buddha's citadel?

5. What does the King give Tripitaka to convince his son that Tripitaka has come in the King's name?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Monkey defeat the immortals?

2. What are the character's new names?

3. What does Monkey find out about the city Cart Slow?

4. How can Tripitaka prove what the King told him is true?

5. Why does Buddha not give Pigsy the title of Buddha?

6. How do Pigsy and Monkey force the monster to retreat?

7. Why does the monster want to eat Tripitaka?

8. How does the turtle cause the characters problems at the end of the story?

9. How do Monkey and the others get an audience with the false King?

10. What is the perch's plan to capture Tripitaka?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Away from the main character, examine the way the author uses the other characters in the book. When does he introduce and take them away from the story? What effect does it have on the story?

Essay Topic 2

Why did Ch'Eng-En Wu decide to end the story like he did? How else could he have ended the story? What new meaning would this ending have given the story?

Essay Topic 3

Monkey is both a folk and mythological story. What are the mechanics of a folk and mythological story in terms of the following?

1. Language

2. Character

3. Structure

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