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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. What story does Minli ask Ba to tell her after buying the goldfish?
2. What were the monkeys trying to protect according to Dragon?
3. In Chapter 16, Dragon tells Minli that one thing that they must do is speak with whom?
4. How often does the Inner City open in the City of Bright Moonlight?
5. What was the name of the goldfish seller's fortuneteller grandmother?
Short Essay Questions
1. How did the dragon first come to consciousness?
2. Who made the rain start and stop in the Story of Fruitless Mountain? Who were her children? What became of them?
3. What is the moral of the Story of the Paper of Happiness? What does the story make Ma and Ba decide?
4. What does Minli feel guilty for in Chapter 3? What does she do about it?
5. In the King's story in Chapter 23, who had torn a page from the Book of Fortune? What did it say?
6. If the first level of the book is the plot line of Minli and her family, what is the second level of the narrative?
7. Why is Fruitless Mountain fruitless, according to Ba? How will it turn green?
8. What does Minli lament about her family? What does she do to change it in Chapter 2?
9. What had one of the soldiers seen on the piece of paper in the Story of the Paper of Happiness?
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
Where is the setting at the beginning of Where the Mountain Meets the Moon? In what country does the narrative take place? Is there an indication of the time period? How is Minli's village described?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the source material or inspiration for the Story of the Paper of Happiness. What is the moral of Ba's story? How does the theme of trust manifest itself in this tale?
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