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

2. In "The Local History of T'an-ch'eng," who do widows struggle to raise?
(a) Prostitutes.
(b) Sons.
(c) Daughters.
(d) Husbands.

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

4. What is complicated and difficult to follow in Chinese society regarding inheritance?
(a) Tax code.
(b) Murder.
(c) Chinese law.
(d) Invasion.

5. Who made up a story that the boy's father killed their father during the chaos of the Manchu invasions?
(a) Cousins.
(b) Sisters.
(c) Uncles.
(d) Aunts.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the snowfall fail to lessen in Huang's story?

2. 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?

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

4. What is used for fertilizer for sorghum cultivation in Peking in Huang's story?

5. What does the widow force the lazy person to do in one of P'u Sung-Ling's stories about widows?

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