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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Woman Who Ran Away.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Ting's partner feed the starving people during the famine?
(a) With magic.
(b) With edible thistles.
(c) Via a storm.
(d) Through an emergency shelter.

2. How far away do workers have to go for forced labor in Huang's story?
(a) 2000 miles.
(b) 25 miles.
(c) 100 miles.
(d) 400 miles.

3. What strong impulse do women have about the family in times of death or stress?
(a) Fight back.
(b) Kill themselves.
(c) Maintain family honor.
(d) Be happy.

4. What does the magistrate notice that people do in order to cheat on taxes?
(a) Steal property.
(b) Rebel.
(c) Falsify records.
(d) Lower land quality.

5. What story is about people who survive through their magical powers?
(a) White Lotus.
(b) Hsiao-erh.
(c) Ting.
(d) Hung.

Short Answer Questions

1. When P'u Sung-ling wrote about a woman confronting rampaging soldiers, what did she set on fire?

2. What kind of a dream does Jen's wife have?

3. Huang tells a story about a heavy snowfall in what year?

4. Who is dragged out of school and beaten to death in the Woman P'eng story?

5. From whom does the young girl learn magical powers in one of P'u Sung-Ling's stories?

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