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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 many males does T'an-ch'eng have to provide for forced labor at one time?
(a) 30,000.
(b) 40,000.
(c) 20,000.
(d) 10,000.

2. What does the snowfall fail to lessen in Huang's story?
(a) Drought.
(b) Air conditioning bill.
(c) Electric bill.
(d) Tax burden.

3. When the beautiful surroundings disintegrate, what does Jen's wife feel?
(a) Calm.
(b) Afraid.
(c) Joyful.
(d) Suffocated.

4. Who is educated to read and write by her scholar father and then struggles to raise two boys in one of P'u Sung-Ling's stories about widows?
(a) Ch'ang-hu.
(b) Hsi-liu.
(c) Huang.
(d) Ch'ang-fu.

5. Who does not understand the law and thinks it is more convoluted that it is in fact in the Woman P'eng story?
(a) Son.
(b) Widow.
(c) Cousin.
(d) Father.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Hsi-liu," how old is the widow when she is forced to raise two sons on her own?

2. Who attacks the couple and have to be stopped by magic?

3. When could a Chinese husband kill a wife according to the law?

4. In Jen's wife's dream, where is she sitting?

5. Since the widow does not have any rights at all, what do the cousins believe that by killing the boy they could get in the Woman P'eng story?

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