1. Describe the bamboo cutter’s life at the beginning of the story.

(simple past – to be)

=He did a different thing with the bamboo and sell them in the market they were poor with not
child but they were happy.

2. What did the bamboo cutter first find inside the stalk of the shining bamboo plant? (simple past)
=He found a little girl.

3. What other things did the bamboo cutter then find inside the bamboo shafts? (simple past)
=He found gold.

4. Describe how Moonlight changed as she grew. (simple past)

=She became to be a beautiful young woman, her hair was silkier, her eyes were sparkles like
stars, her skin was soft like a feather and her smile was brighter than the moon.

5. What did Moonlight request from each of her suitors? (simple past)
1. Bring her a bowl made of stone from a monk in India.
2. Ask from a branch of the only tree which grew at the peak of the tallest mountain.
3. Went to china and bought the robe of the fire rat.
4. Was asked to brin the jewel that had seven colors.
5. Find the swallow who carries as shell in her stomach

6. What happened to each of the suitors on their quests? (simple past)

2. caught in a thunderstorm in the easten sea.

3. found beast instead who bits him.

4.Tried to find the dragon but when he enters to the dark forest afraid, he gave up.

5. Tried to catch the swallow but was bit by her.

7. What did Moonlight ask from the Emperor? (simple past)

=don’t married and make no mands to know why.

8. What did Moonlight believe will happen to her on the fifteenth day of the month? (simple past and
simple future)

=the people of the moon going to take her.

9. What did Moonlight promise her parents and the Emperor before leaving? (simple past and simple
future)

=to see them every night.

10. What happened to Moonlight’s parents and the Emperor at the end of the story? (simple past

Transformed her big house to a small and the empero never marie again.