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

2. Who took over China in 1644?
(a) Yu-yu Dynasty.
(b) Ching Dynasty.
(c) Ling Dynasty.
(d) T'an-ch'eng.

3. Who is the writer that says this earthquake is one of the natural disasters of the time?
(a) Huang Liu-hung.
(b) T'ang-Ch'en.
(c) T'ang-Liu.
(d) Feng K'o-t'san.

4. What act does the official consider morally evil and degrading that many people in China are doing?
(a) Suicide.
(b) Drinking.
(c) Sleeping.
(d) Fornicating.

5. What is a county in Northeastern China, in the province of Shantung?
(a) T'ang-Huang.
(b) T'ang-Ch'en.
(c) T'ang-Canal.
(d) T'ang-Liu.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does a woman make medical prescriptions in one of the stories told by P'u Sung-ling from 1668?

2. Why is Ting arrested?

3. How many males does T'an-ch'eng have to provide for forced labor at one time?

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

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

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