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Match the following stories/trials to the best theme statement they convey.

• Hold onto things until they are needed.

• A String of Destiny

• Selfishness will not get you happiness.

• The Story of the Goldfish Man

• Fates can be changed.

• The Story of Fruitless Mountain

• Fates cannot be changed.

• The Story of the Old Man of the Moon

• Pride can hurt what you love.

• The Story of the Paper of Happiness

Match the following stories/trials to the best theme statement they convey.

• Holding onto anger/rage only hurts you in the end.

• Minli watches Da-A-Fu trick the green tiger

• You only lose what you cling to.

• Minli meets the buffalo boy and the weaver girl

• Beautiful things should be shared, not kept greedily.

• Minli is caught by the King and being given the "borrowed line"

• Be generous and kind, even if you don't know someone well.

• Minli is given a coat by the villagers made from pieces of the own clothing

• Happiness comes from being thankful for what you already have, not from wanting what you don't.

• The Story of the Dragon's Pearl

That is _____ house. (their, there, they're)

Da-A-Fu's ancestors receive word that Magistrate Tiger is coming to destroy their home and and family. What does Ye Ye suggest?

• to prepare a picnic

• to flee up the mountain and hide until it is clear

• to run to the next village

• to go to the Old Man of the Moon and ask for help

Answer explanation

Ye Ye, great-grandfather, suggests that there is nothing that they can do. They will not run. The soldiers would easily find them and magistrate would be even more brutal. He did not want to spend their last moments together in panicked flight.

The children are __________ by the circus performance.

• Manipulation

• Enthralled

• Despair

• Nimble

The ship sank in the _______ storm.

• turbulent

• sheepish

• corrupt

• sacrifice

They come down the mountain and realize that it is not the same mountain.

What does he notice?

• an unusual rock

• a large massive tree in their path

• the weather is unusually hotter than their mountain

• all the above

Answer explanation

There is a rock type that they have never seen before on their mountain. All the other choices are incorrect.

There were no trees and

the weather was too cold for an early autumn night.

The King's Great-Great Grandfather is also known as who?

• Magistrate Tiger

• Dragon

• The Goldfish

• Tiger

Answer explanation

Magistrate Tiger, the King's great-great grandfather, was the person who tried to outwit the Old Man of the Moon.

Mallory was listening to a nutrition presentation at school and couldn’t believe how much she was learning. She came to the realization of how unhealthy her family ate. She decided she wanted to get healthy and help her family get healthy too. She devised a plan to add one healthy item to their diet each Week. She also started grocery shopping with her mom to help her learn how to cook healthy.
What was Mallory’s motivation?

• The Nutrition Presentation
• To get healthy
• grocery shopping

"What all origami has in common is that_______________ is the primary way to make the shape" (pg. 4)

• Cutting

• Bending

• Shaping

• Folding