2. What character is the chapter Opera, Karate and Bandits dedicated to?
(a) Nhuong's cousin.
(b) Grandmother.
(c) Nhuong.
(d) Minh.

3. What was the horse snake doing to get at the fish in the pond?
(a) Digging a tunnel.
(b) Using a dead squirrel as bait.
(c) Tapping its tail to get the fish to surface.
(d) Splashing out water.

4. What would happen if a fisherman pulled the fishline from the eel too early?
(a) He would get nothing.
(b) He would only get the contents of its stomach.
(c) He would only get get half of the eel.
(d) He would only gets its jaw.

5. Why did Nhuong's cousin become a hero?
(a) He killed a horse snake.
(b) He saved a child from a python.
(c) He saved an old woman from a tiger.
(d) He killed a wild hog.

6. What was found inside the bed's bamboo stalks?
(a) A snake.
(b) A rat.
(c) An eel.
(d) A mouse.

7. What were most opera in Vietnam based on in those days?
(a) Hollywood films.
(b) Bollywood films.
(c) Chinese mythology.
(d) Japanese mythology.

8. Why did the crocodile leave Lan in the first place?
(a) To go to the bathroom.
(b) To check on his family.
(c) To get a drink of water.
(d) To kill a smaller animal.

9. What is the name of the farmer who discovers the horse snake?
(a) Lang.
(b) Beet.
(c) Lin.
(d) Minh.

10. What evidence did Trung find at the river bank that suggested she had been eaten by a crocodile?
(a) Her ripped clothes.
(b) One of her fingers.
(c) Her blood.
(d) Strands of her hair.

11. What is the title of the first chapter in this section?
(a) Little Altar on the roadside.
(b) A Utopian Vision.
(c) Funny Birds.
(d) Finding One's Self.

12. What did the baby snake live off while trapped in the bamboo?
(a) Ants.
(b) Cockroaches.
(c) Lice.
(d) Snails.

13. How did the old lady react to the death of the monkey?
(a) She cried.
(b) She laughed.
(c) She fainted.
(d) She slapped the man.

14. What had been placed over the son's head when the mother visited him at his cot?
(a) Vine leaves.
(b) A dead hog.
(c) A banyan leaf.
(d) Tree leaves.

15. Why did everyone in Trung's family think he was going mad?
(a) He kept on trying to take his own life.
(b) He kept on talking to himself.
(c) He decided to hunt for the crocodile that killed Lan.
(d) He kept on hearing Lan's voice.