Test on Part II – Chapters 10 – 23
TRUE or FALSE? Write T or F in front of each statement.
Ch. 10 –
_____1. Kuan-yin’s mission was to find a pilgrim to obtain scriptures from India and bring them to China.
_____2. The Sandy Priest would get his old job of Marshal of Heavenly Reeds back if he helped the pilgrim in his quest.
_____ 3. Pigsy got banished to the Lower Regions because he became too cozy with the Goddess of the Moon.
_____ 4. The dragon was supposed to turn into an elephant and give the pilgrim a ride to India.
_____ 5. The Great Sage was imprisoned under the Mountain of Five Elements for 500 years when Kuan-yin came to rescue him.
Ch. 11 –
_____ 6. The priest Hsuan-tsang did not have any knowledge of Kuan-yin’s advanced teachings.
_____ 7. Kuan-yin’s teachings (Great Vehicle) were also called Tripitaka or Three Bundles.
_____ 8. The priest Hsuan-tsang received the new name Tripitaka because those were the scriptures that he would bring to China from India.
_____ 9. The ancient old man who rescued Tripitaka from cannibalistic ogres was really the messenger Mercury.
Ch. 12 –
_____ 10. The Mountain of Five Elements had been thrown down from heaven during the Qin dynasty.
_____ 11. Tripitaka removed the golden letters of “OM” by using a magical spell.
_____ 12. Monkey’s religious name is “Empty-of-Mind.”
_____ 13. The six bandits who wanted to rob Tripitaka and Monkey represent parts of the body of a human being.
_____ 14. Monkey felt he did the right thing when he defended Tripitaka and beat the bandits to a pulp.
Ch. 13 –
_____ 15. The old woman who taught Tripitaka a spell for Controlling the Mind was really Kuan-yin in disguise.
_____ 16. Monkey was scolded by Kuan-yin for talking to the Dragon King.
_____ 17. The magic cap allowed Monkey to recite scriptures without learning them.
_____ 18. The Headband Spell caused Monkey intense pain.
Ch. 14 –
_____ 19. Monkey didn’t know that Kuan-yin had saved the Dragon so he could carry the scripture pilgrim to India.
_____ 20. The dragon and Monkey agreed not to fight anymore.
Ch. 15 –
_____ 21. Pigsy had been put on a vegetarian diet because he had eaten travelers before and he had to atone for his acts.
_____ 22. The River of Flowing Sands was 800 miles across.
_____ 23. The monster (Sandy) at the River of Flowing Sands was formerly an alchemist at the Yellow Emperor’s palace.
_____ 24. Sandy was placed in the river by Kuan-yin so that he would help the scripture pilgrim when he arrived.
Ch. 16 –
_____ 25. Monkey believed Pigsy’s story that the sun makes a sizzling sound of fire cooking water when it sets in the ocean.
_____ 26. The Flaming Mountain blocks the pilgrim’s way to the West.
_____ 27. The only way to put out the fire was by getting a fan from Immortal Iron Fan.
Ch. 17 –
_____ 28. The Rakshasi’s fan represented the negative yin principle in life.
_____ 29. Monkey is able to put out the fire with the fan he gets from the Rakshasi.
Ch. 18 –
_____ 30. Flaming Mountain was caused by Monkey’s havoc in heaven 500 years ago by the burning bricks he kicked over.
_____ 31. Monkey fools the Bull Demon’s wife by transforming himself into a crab.
_____ 32. Monkey learned how to use the real fan, but he didn’t know how to make it shrink back to its normal size.
Ch. 19 –
_____ 33. Bull Demon stole the fan back from Monkey by changing into a monkey.
_____ 34. Pigsy helped Monkey defeat Bull Demon.
Ch. 20 –
_____ 35. When Monkey waved the real fan at the flames, the fire finally went out.
_____ 36. Monkey kept the fan to himself and didn’t return it to the Rakshasi.
Ch. 21 –
_____ 37. The time between late autumn and early winter is when the yin in nature changes into yang.
_____ 38. Monkey was able to make it across an 8 mile river on a slippery narrow log.
_____ 39. The pilgrims saw Tripitaka’s body floating downstream.
Ch. 22 –
_____ 40. The pilgrim achieved his quest in 5,040 days or 14 years.
_____ 41. Tripitaka feared that the villagers might steal his horse from him.
Ch. 23 –
_____ 42. Tripitaka read the scriptures for the first time in China at the Wild Dragon Pagoda.
Links to other sites on the Web
Test was created by Teacher PJ Wigowsky on Feb. 11, 2001
Based on book by David Kherdian
For educational purposes
