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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. 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.

2. What is cruelly enforced in the countryside more than the city according to the magistrate?
(a) Laws.
(b) Tax.
(c) Magic.
(d) Prisons.

3. What do the young couple set up as a new occupation after Ting is freed by a large bribe?
(a) Shoe shop.
(b) Glass factory.
(c) Herbal shop.
(d) Tax accountancy firm.

4. The majority of people rebel against what Emperor?
(a) Yu-yu.
(b) Tseng-yu.
(c) Liu.
(d) Manchu.

5. Who, when captured and thrown in fire, claims to be part of a rebel household?
(a) Magistrate.
(b) Fox spirit.
(c) Spirit medium.
(d) Magical spirit.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is another name for forced labor in Huang's story?

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

3. What is the naive and uneducated head man of the village driven to while trying to pay tax?

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

5. Who writes the misery of the peasants during the ransacking?

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