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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. Who was the only player who was allowed to think about their answers and a person who was considered an official paper?
(a) Chaeing.
(b) No one.
(c) Shen Fu.
(d) Yun.

2. Shen Fu says that he defines frugality as knowing when to save _______________, according to his writings.
(a) Time.
(b) Money.
(c) Worry.
(d) Patience.

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

4. One of the largest empires in the world was led by men who knew more about the _______ of a thousand years before than about the tax law.
(a) Poetry.
(b) Pictures.
(c) Caste systems.
(d) Family trees.

5. Shen Fu thinks that when laying out a landscape, it should be a goal to give the feeling of the small in the ______________.
(a) Small.
(b) Smaller spaces.
(c) Large.
(d) Sky.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Yun do when Shen Fu is off studying with a friend of his father's, according to the book?

2. Shen Fu describes the scene in the garden as being so intoxicating that no one needed to ____________.

3. Shen Fu describes the fact that he was _____________ to take on the position as a secretary, which is not uncommon.

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

5. Who once created a sketch of Shen Fu and Yun in a garden, according to the story?

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