What did the commander have to say about who the guards had to search for and what were the Emperor’s instructions?Ĭhapter 5 Answers 1. How did Ping sit safely on the dragon? 7. What was lying in a neat row on the cave floor when Ping awoke? 2. ‘All answers lie beyond the gate of experience.’ p68Ĭhapter 5 1.Dragon talks in riddles or proverbs – ‘What was in front is now behind.’ p64.Tells Ping he is taking the stone to the ocean.Dragon has had many names real name is Long Danzi p55 – means Courageous Dragon.Dragon tells Ping that she has a name – means Duckweed.The dragon smelt like a mixture of overripe plums and fish brine. They looked like the shells of shiny black beetles. Makes thoughts appear in her mind = telepathy/Slave girl can understand the noises the dragon makes 3. What did the dragon smell like?Ĭhapter 4 Answers 1. Find the simile used to describe what the palace buildings looked like from high in the air. Find an example of onomatopoeia on page 47. How does the dragon seem to communicate with the slave girl? 3. What was the slave girl’s foremost thought as she fled the palace? 2. Dragon picked up girl and flew to safety Ĭhapter 4 1.Guards trying to capture girl and dragon.Dragon words forming in girl’s head – ‘Dragon Stone, Save Stone.’.Picture – check how well each picture matches the description. For a brief time each spring the wisteria was covered in purple flowers, but the rest of the time it was a tortured tangle of bare twigs. The length of three men, but no higher than a young ox. A deep rumbling sound like someone pounding a drum made of beaten metal.
Because she struggles to pick up the wine bottles with her right hand. Because she expects something terrible to happen to them because they killed an Imperial Dragon. From the excellent description of the dragon on page 28, draw a picture of it for homework.Ĭhapter 3 Answers 1. What type of food does the slave girl discover the dragon likes to eat? 5. What simile is used to describe the noise? 4. A noise startled the slave girl whilst she was in the pit. Why does Master Lan think the slave girl is lefthanded? 3. Why doesn’t the slave girl expect to wake up? 2. So that the Emperor cannot find any evidence to indicate that they did not look after the dragons.Ĭhapter 3 1. Sickness is the sound of a dead body smacking against the/a stone. Rough and dry like leather that had been left out in the weather for too long. Give an example of a similar situation today where someone tries to hide something.Ĭhapter 2 Answers 1. Justify weather you think it was right to make the dragon into pickle? 12. What do you think they mean? Loneliness Misery Despair 11. Who or What caused the words to form in girl’s head? 10. What do you think the dragon died from? Do you think it was the girl’s fault that the dragon died? 9. Why does Master Lan want to cook the flesh of the dragon? Try to change the following into a metaphor to describe the sound of sickness: ‘The sound of the dead body smacking against the stone made the girl feel sick.’ 6. What other 3 staff work at the palace? 5. What simile is used to describe the dragons hide? 4. How much would the dead dragon have been worth alive? 3. What abstract nouns does the slave girl think of when she hears one of the dragons roar? 2. She found him stealing a chicken leg, which she had stolen from Master Lan.Ĭhapter 2 1. Exploring the palace while everyone else is sleeping. She saved a little of the oil for herself. A hairpin given to her by the man who delivered the stores twice a year, a piece of weathered wood shaped just like a fish and a white eagle feather. (a) greasy ribbon (b) slave girl (c) magnificent golden creature (d) long scaly bodies 5. She was supposed to feed the farm animals and take care of Master Lan’s personal needs such as cooking his meals. Their long scaly bodies lay all day, curled up like piles of thick rope in the dirty straw. What have you found out about the setting?Ĭhapter 1 Answers 1. From whose perspective is the first chapter written? 11. When, if ever is stealing ok? What questions does the first chapter make you want to ask or know about? 10. What does the slave girl do every time she lights the master’s lamp? What is the slave girl’s secret pleasure? What is the simile used to describe the Emperor’s bed? How did the slave girl first meet the rat ‘Hua’? What is Master Lan’s position at the palace? What was the slave girl supposed to do at the palace? Fill in the adjective/s from page 5: (a) _ ribbon (c) _ girl (b) _ creature (d) _ bodies List the slave girl’s secret possessions.
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