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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the peddler brag he could do in a short space of time?
(a) Capture a horse snake.
(b) Train dogs.
(c) Tame a wild hog.
(d) Train monkeys.

2. What kind of lamp attracted the horse snake?
(a) A hogfish lamp.
(b) A tiger lamp.
(c) A eel lamp.
(d) A catfish lamp.

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

4. Where did Lan take her bath?
(a) The ocean.
(b) The river.
(c) Her pond.
(d) The lake.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of theater production did Nhoung and his grandmother attend on New Year's Day?

2. What kind of fish does the horse snake become intoxicated by?

3. What was the horse snake doing to get at the fish in the pond?

4. What did Trung think Lan was when he saw her on the island from a distance?

5. What did Lan used to help Trung's mother to fix?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the peddler teach monkey to eat rice with a spoon?

2. How did Lang and Trung persuade their families that they should marry?

3. How would grandmother get the doctor to give her his most powerful medicine?

4. How did Lan eventually escape the crocodile?

5. How did the monkey burn down the old lady's house?

6. How Nyoung's grandmother protect her husband in the restaurant?

7. How would fisherman catch the hogfish?

8. Why did Trung and Lan's family split them up?

9. How does a fisherman capture a golden eel?

10. How did Nhuong's grandmother entertain herself in her old age?

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