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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. In a P'u Sung-ling story, what does a woman do with a peasant in the grass?
(a) Eat food.
(b) Have sex.
(c) Sleep.
(d) Fight.

2. How cold is it the night that Jen quarrels with his wife?
(a) 20 degrees.
(b) 10 degrees.
(c) 30 degrees.
(d) 0 degrees.

3. What does Ts'ui-hsien suspect about the man who wants to marry her?
(a) He has bad habits.
(b) He is a liar.
(c) He is rich.
(d) He is a beggar.

4. In what story does a naive man have to acquire crickets?
(a) The Fighting Cricket.
(b) The Game Cricket.
(c) The Cricket Tax.
(d) The Chinese Cricket.

5. Huang tells a story about a heavy snowfall in what year?
(a) 1234.
(b) 1789.
(c) 1671.
(d) 1456.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. In "The Local History of T'an-ch'eng," who do widows struggle to raise?

4. As power changed hands in China in 1644, what did not decline?

5. What system is used to maintain public order, police functions, and militia defense to deal with attacks by bandits in Huang's story?

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