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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Pleasures of Leisure.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Yun suggest that Shen Fu take in order to create a powder which can then fill in the cracks of other stones?
(a) Poorer stones.
(b) Food scraps.
(c) Glass.
(d) Paint.

2. What does Yun say that they can bring with them in order to be able to have tea when she and Shen Fu are on an adventure?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Money to buy one.
(c) Their imagination.
(d) Earthenware pot.

3. The Chinese administrative practice was that a person could not be a magistrate in __________________.
(a) Another district.
(b) The capital.
(c) Their home district.
(d) Another country.

4. What is not one of the categories of specialists into which the private secretaries might be divided, according to the book?
(a) Bookkeeping.
(b) Judicial.
(c) Tax collection.
(d) Registration of documents.

5. The Chinese believed their leaders should be _____________ first and bureaucrats second, according to the Introduction.
(a) Husbands.
(b) Spiritual.
(c) Family men.
(d) Scholars.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Shen Fu use when he didn't have any pieces of stone to put around his narcissi?

2. What was the giant that Shen Fu saw when he was concentrating all of his attention on two insects battling in the grass?

3. What is the last date which can be supported as Shen Fu talked about working on the book at that time?

4. While Shen Fu's favorite flower doesn't have a __________, the colors are long-lasting and they are easy to prune.

5. Poor scholars who live in crowded houses should imitate the sterns of Taiping ___________ of Shen Fu's home country.

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