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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Introduction and Part I: Joys of the Wedding Chamber.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is not generally a part of Chinese literature, though this book tends to reveal more of these details than most books do?
(a) Family life.
(b) Everyday life.
(c) Books.
(d) Education.

2. What are Shen Fu and Yu living adjacent to when they live near the old woman?
(a) Library.
(b) A cave.
(c) River temple.
(d) Vegatable garden.

3. Yun believes that having been to the festival, she has not lived a life in ____________, since she has seen such a beautiful pplace.
(a) Vain.
(b) Terror.
(c) Pain.
(d) Illness.

4. The training that Shen Fu receives when he was growing up was to prepare him for a position as a scholar-________________.
(a) Teacher.
(b) Magistrator.
(c) Manager.
(d) Administrator.

5. Shen Fu decided to restore a peasant girl to her family when a man of influence wants to make her a _________.
(a) Sister.
(b) Concubine.
(c) Slave.
(d) Second wife.

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. Shen Fu was disgusted by the ________ of his friends, which is why he decided to leave the post at which he was stationed.

3. Han-yuan is the __________ girl of whom Yun has become quite fond during some times together.

4. Who was the first translator of the book in 1935, according to the introduction of the book?

5. Shen Fu was one who accomplished a great feat in China, becoming ________, without becoming a literatus.

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