Q 01/05

Journey to the West is a fictionalised account of a pilgrimage by which real Chinese monk?

A) Faxian

B) Xuanzang

C) Bodhidharma

D) Kumarajiva

Answer · why

B) Xuanzang

He spent 19 years travelling to India and back in the 7th century, collecting Buddhist scriptures.

Q 02/05

The pilgrims in the novel travel to India to fetch what?

A) A sacred relic of the Buddha

B) The elixir of immortality

C) Buddhist scriptures

D) A dragon's pearl

Answer · why

C) Buddhist scriptures

They finally receive them from the living Buddha on Vulture Peak after a journey said to take fourteen years.

Q 03/05

The novel is traditionally attributed to which Ming dynasty writer?

A) Cao Xueqin

B) Wu Cheng'en

C) Luo Guanzhong

D) Shi Nai'an

Answer · why

B) Wu Cheng'en

Modern scholars doubt the attribution, since much of the material came from centuries of folk tales.

Q 04/05

Sun Wukong is born from what?

A) A lightning strike

B) A stone egg

C) A peach pit

D) A dragon's tear

Answer · why

B) A stone egg

The rock on Flower Fruit Mountain was formed by the coupling of Heaven and Earth.

Q 05/05

How many transformations does Sun Wukong master?

A) 72

B) 36

C) 64

D) 48

Answer · why

A) 72

He can turn into anything animate or inanimate; his somersault cloud covers 108,000 li in a bound.