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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Shen Fu was one who accomplished a great feat in China, becoming ________, without becoming a literatus.
(a) Married.
(b) Successful.
(c) Literate.
(d) Educated.

2. What did the guests write on the painting that Hsing-lan did after he was done with the work?
(a) Names.
(b) Good luck wishes.
(c) Poetry.
(d) Inscriptions.

3. Shen Fu tells the reader to create small scenes as lovely as ________ when adding detail in the pot with flowers and stones.
(a) Dragons.
(b) Pictures.
(c) Poetry.
(d) Books.

4. The different categories in the book, according to Shen Fu, all add up to a __________ life in this book.
(a) Chaotic.
(b) Floating.
(c) Boring.
(d) Jumbled.

5. Shen Fu tells the reader to prune away an excess leaves on a flower in order to make it look spare and ______________.
(a) Unblemished.
(b) Uncommon.
(c) True.
(d) Honorable.

Short Answer Questions

1. The secretaries in _________, almost by definition at the time of the book, were failures in their lives, according to the Introduction.

2. What is the one thing that Yun and Shen Fu always had available when they had friends over to their home?

3. What does Shen Fu say should be different in height, but they should also be in proportion to each other so there is an attractive relationship between them?

4. The Chinese believed their leaders should be _____________ first and bureaucrats second, according to the Introduction.

5. Who is Han-yuan sold to, which saddens Yun very much upon finding out this information from another?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens in the incident with the earthworm and Shen Fu when he is a child?

2. What did Yun's family laugh at her for which made her sheepish in the days leading up to her wedding with Shen Yu?

3. What is the interesting way that Shen Fu and Yun want to be reincarnated when they are born again in their next life?

4. What else did Yun teach herself to do, according to the description from Shen Fu in the story?

5. What does Shen Fu imagine the bug is when he is observing it out in nature, according to the book?

6. What happens with the family as a result of the incident which Shen Fu has to deal when when he is a child?

7. What does Shen Fu try to describe about the potting and the arrangement of flowers?

8. What are three things which Shen Fu gives instructions on when he is talking about plants and caring for plants?

9. Why do Shen Fu and Yun want to be reincarnated to be with each other in their next life? What do they hope to achieve?

10. Why does Shen Fu take up so much time talking about the arrangement of pots and cases? What is he trying to do for the plants?

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