The Dragon Problem

How do many fairy tales begin?

• It was a dark and stormy night...

• Once upon a time...

• Four score and seven years ago...

• This one time...

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What is The Dragon Problem?

• Liang helps his father make dragons.

• There are too many dragons in the village.

• A dragon in the village eats pigs, water buffalo and people.

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Liang wants to marry a

• Princess

• A Dragon

• a woman from the village

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A procession is

• a parade or line of people

• a piece of paper

• like recess

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To carve is to

• peel

• cut into

• paint

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Liang's father was frowning when he learned of his wish to marry Princess Peng. Frowning means

• unhappy

• happy

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The dragon growled at Liang. Growled means

• smiled

• laughed

• grunted in a frightening way

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The dragon was huge. Huge means

• large

• medium

• small

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Liang was serious about marrying Princess Peng. Serious means

• not really

• to mean something

• playing around

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Dragons are

• fiction

• non-fiction