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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. As power changed hands in China in 1644, what did not decline?
(a) Taxes.
(b) Corvee.
(c) Productivity.
(d) Population.

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

3. Jen's wife is an _________.
(a) Atheist.
(b) Concubine.
(c) Orphan.
(d) Killer.

4. Who is dragged out of school and beaten to death in the Woman P'eng story?
(a) Pin-po.
(b) Ho-to.
(c) Lien.
(d) Ch'ang.

5. According to what custom does a woman return dowry to her husband's family?
(a) Hsi-liu notary.
(b) Chinese legal code.
(c) P'eng policy.
(d) Ch'ang-hu inheritance.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the naive and uneducated head man of the village driven to while trying to pay tax?

2. How cold is it the night that Jen quarrels with his wife?

3. Who is Jen's neighbor who sees Jen's wife when she is hiding?

4. In the story of Woman P'eng, what is the name of the young son?

5. What is another name for sorghum?

(see the answer key)

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