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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the giant that Shen Fu saw when he was concentrating all of his attention on two insects battling in the grass?
(a) A man.
(b) His father.
(c) Toad.
(d) A stone.

2. Who decides that Shen Fu needs to go home in order to complete his examinations during his schooling with with friend of his father's?
(a) Yun.
(b) Shen Fu.
(c) Shen Fu's father.
(d) Teacher.

3. What is the other name for the scrotum that is referenced in the first part of this section, as Shen Fu has an accident?
(a) Sacks.
(b) Chalk.
(c) Books.
(d) Eggs.

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

5. What does Shen Fu seem to have specialized in, according to this skills when he was a secretary for the magistrate?
(a) Document registration.
(b) Law.
(c) Bookkeeping.
(d) Judicial.

Short Answer Questions

1. If there is a tall stand and shorter stands are spread around it, with the ones in the back being tall and the ones in the front being short, it is called a beautiful pile of _______, by some people.

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

3. What kind of seeds does Shen Fu suggest being ground off and put into an eggshell which can then be put with other chicken eggs?

4. The neighbor asks Yun if she knows the __________ with whom Shen Fu was drinking the night before, as they are on the return trip.

5. The secretaries in _________, almost by definition at the time of the book, were failures in their lives, according to the Introduction.

Short Essay Questions

1. What it the task which Wan Tsai-chang completed, which makes him the only person that Shen Fu knows to have done such a thing?

2. What does Shen Fu tells his parents about Yun when they meet as cousins when he is thirteen-years-old?

3. How does Shen Fu describe the cleverness of Yun when he talks about her life and her upbringing?

4. What is the interesting way that Shen Fu and Yun want to be reincarnated when they are born again in their next life?

5. What is the advice that Yun gives to Shen Fu about painting insects as a part of his artistic endeavors?

6. What is the therapy that Shen Fu receives for his most unfortunate injury, according to the book?

7. What does Shen Fu imagine the bug is when he is observing it out in nature, according to the book?

8. What else did Yun teach herself to do, according to the description from Shen Fu in the story?

9. While it's not clear whether all of the transcripts will be found, what does the introduction say about the translation and what it is meant to do?

10. How would the Pavilion of the Waves' Lotus Lovers' Hall be described, according to the book?

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