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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. Poor scholars who live in crowded houses should imitate the sterns of Taiping ___________ of Shen Fu's home country.
(a) Cottages.
(b) Temples.
(c) Villages.
(d) Boats.

2. The different categories in the book, according to Shen Fu, all add up to a __________ life in this book.
(a) Jumbled.
(b) Floating.
(c) Chaotic.
(d) Boring.

3. Who once created a sketch of Shen Fu and Yun in a garden, according to the story?
(a) Chaiang.
(b) Yang Pu-fan.
(c) Shen Fu.
(d) Yun.

4. What does Shen Fu say should be different in height, but they should also be in proportion to each other so there is an attractive relationship between them?
(a) Stands.
(b) Petals.
(c) Branches.
(d) Leaves.

5. 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) Collections.
(c) Dowries.
(d) Tax loans.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Shen Fu says there should not be more than ___________ vases arranged on a table, according to his detailed writing.

3. 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?

4. What is the name of a person the Chinese culture who was a lover, but her sexual favors were not necessarily for sale?

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.

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. Why does Shen Fu take up so much time talking about the arrangement of pots and cases? What is he trying to do for the plants?

3. What does Shen Fu think that people with modest homes should try to do with their homes and their arrangements?

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

5. What are the things that Shen Fu and Yun discuss when they do the Pavilion together?

6. What happens in the incident with the earthworm and Shen Fu when he is a child?

7. What does Shen Fu try to describe about the potting and the arrangement of flowers?

8. What happens with the family as a result of the incident which Shen Fu has to deal when when he is a child?

9. What doesn't Shen Fu understand about other couples since he and Yun's relationship is so different from the others?

10. Why does the teacher send Shen Fu home in order to write his compositions for school, according to the book?

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