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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Feud.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does the widower take as a new wife after his wife is murdered in one of P'u Sung-Ling's stories?
(a) Slave girl.
(b) Prostitute.
(c) Merchant.
(d) Peddler.

2. Who makes himself the law and uses his violent abilities to right what he sees as injustices in one of P'u Sung-ling's stories?
(a) Din Dan.
(b) P'u Sung-ling.
(c) Ts'ui Meng.
(d) Li Chen.

3. How does the man who came to judge Ts'ui for his crime know him?
(a) He was a friend of the family.
(b) He was the young refugee boy.
(c) He was the Taoist monk.
(d) He was the son of a widow.

4. When does an earthquake occur in the capital of the Northeast county in China?
(a) 1968.
(b) 1988.
(c) 1945.
(d) 1967.

5. Who lacks an heir after the death of the young boy in the Woman P'eng story?
(a) Ch'ang.
(b) Huang.
(c) P'eng.
(d) Hsi-hu.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is cruelly enforced in the countryside more than the city according to the magistrate?

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

3. What famous philosopher has ties to T'ang-ch'eng?

4. What is the intense violence in the story of P'u Sung-ling's personal life centered around?

5. Who does the couple ransom after the war is over?

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