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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. What does Yun say that they can bring with them in order to be able to have tea when she and Shen Fu are on an adventure?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Earthenware pot.
(c) Money to buy one.
(d) Their imagination.

2. The Chinese believed their leaders should be _____________ first and bureaucrats second, according to the Introduction.
(a) Family men.
(b) Husbands.
(c) Scholars.
(d) Spiritual.

3. What does Yun suggest that Shen Fu take in order to create a powder which can then fill in the cracks of other stones?
(a) Food scraps.
(b) Paint.
(c) Poorer stones.
(d) Glass.

4. The secretaries were not considered to be a part of the government and they were paid out of _____________, not the larger accounts.
(a) Personal funds.
(b) Tax loans.
(c) Collections.
(d) Dowries.

5. Shen Fu was disgusted by the ________ of his friends, which is why he decided to leave the post at which he was stationed.
(a) Laws.
(b) Misdeeds.
(c) Showboating.
(d) Writings.

Short Answer Questions

1. What should the roots of a potted tree look like when one is choosing between potted trees to raise?

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

3. 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.

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

5. _______ stories in China are rare, so this might be one of the reasons why this book became so popular with the readers of the time.

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