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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Sorrows of Misfortune.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Poor scholars who live in crowded houses should imitate the sterns of Taiping ___________ of Shen Fu's home country.
(a) Boats.
(b) Temples.
(c) Cottages.
(d) Villages.

2. Shen Fu admits there are usually retributions for one's own _______,but he does not see this to be the case with himself.
(a) Sins.
(b) Actions.
(c) Families.
(d) Truths.

3. What was the name of the girl which Yun had given birth to fourteen years before?
(a) Ling-chun.
(b) Ching-chun.
(c) Chun.
(d) Ching-la.

4. What was very common in Chinese cultures until just recently, though this did not necessarily happen with Shen Fu and Yun?
(a) Loving relationships first.
(b) Arranged marriages.
(c) Marriage in childhood.
(d) Partnership, not marriage.

5. Shen Fu imagines _________ flying through trees and mountains when he is lying the grass as a child.
(a) Eagles.
(b) Cranes.
(c) Doves.
(d) Phoenixes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Shen Fu says there should not be more than ___________ vases arranged on a table, according to his detailed writing.

2. Shen Fu's father did not understand how his son could owe money as they are a house of __________ and caps.

3. The Chinese administrative practice was that a person could not be a magistrate in __________________.

4. What does Shen Fu always have on his desk when he was living at home, according to the book?

5. What would Shen Fu blow at the mosquitoes when he would let them under the netting as a child?

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