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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 could Shen Fu have taken on in order to ensure that he was able to pay for the medicine that Yun needed?
(a) Family loan.
(b) Private job offer.
(c) Courtesan.
(d) Lower status job.

2. While the secretaries were very powerful, according to the Introduction, they were also very ____________, which caused them to be less respected.
(a) Dull.
(b) Unofficial.
(c) Poor.
(d) Uneducated.

3. What was the highest position to which Shen Fu rose in the story, a lower position, though Shen Fu was content in it?
(a) Teacher.
(b) Magistrate.
(c) Private secretary.
(d) Janitor.

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. In what city was Shen Fu born, according to the introduction of the book?
(a) Shanghai.
(b) Chicago.
(c) Beijing.
(d) Soochow.

Short Answer Questions

1. As a result of the rules, the magistrate might even be ignorant of the local _______ of the area in which he might be placed for his duties.

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

3. Yun believes that having been to the festival, she has not lived a life in ____________, since she has seen such a beautiful pplace.

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.

5. Shen Fu and Yun worship the Old Man of the _________ as to ensure that they will be able to be together in their next life.

(see the answer key)

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