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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. When the lazy person returns and begs the widow, what role does he assume again?
(a) Student.
(b) Teacher.
(c) Peddler.
(d) Prostitute.

2. What is cruelly enforced in the countryside more than the city according to the magistrate?
(a) Magic.
(b) Laws.
(c) Tax.
(d) Prisons.

3. Who does Ting confess his love to?
(a) Huang.
(b) White Lotus.
(c) Hsiao-erh.
(d) Hung.

4. Who visits an old woman who is spinning in one of P'u Sung-Ling's stories about widows?
(a) Young woman.
(b) Old man.
(c) Old priest.
(d) Young man.

5. Who attacks the couple and have to be stopped by magic?
(a) Refugees.
(b) Aliens.
(c) Tribal people.
(d) Bandits.

Short Answer Questions

1. Under Chinese law, what is Jen supposed to do with his wife?

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

3. When Jen's wife is abandoned, what situation does she find herself in?

4. Who met a young woman named Ts'ui-hsien at a religious ceremony?

5. What are the two major crops in Peking during the heavy snowfall described in Huang's story?

(see the answer key)

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