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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, The Land.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the couple use to elope?
(a) Animals.
(b) Broomsticks.
(c) Magical kites.
(d) Locusts.

2. How far away do workers have to go for forced labor in Huang's story?
(a) 400 miles.
(b) 25 miles.
(c) 100 miles.
(d) 2000 miles.

3. What do the young couple buy for themselves after they elope?
(a) Drugs and supplies.
(b) Farm and implements.
(c) Furniture and clothes.
(d) A house and animals.

4. What northern group attacks from the north and loots the city prior to taking over China?
(a) Huang.
(b) Tang.
(c) Matou.
(d) Manchu.

5. To what spirit is a shrine made in T'ang-ch'eng to protect from evil spirits in the 17th century?
(a) Tseng-yu.
(b) Yu-yu.
(c) P'u Sung-ling.
(d) T'an-ch'eng.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is drinking with a cousin during the earthquake of 1668?

2. What is a county in Northeastern China, in the province of Shantung?

3. What storage facilities are abandoned during the time of the famine?

4. What is NOT part of the loot when the city is ransacked?

5. How does Ting's partner feed the starving people during the famine?

(see the answer key)

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