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.