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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1, the Observers.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. From where does a woman who is a spirit medium produce a voice in one of the stories told by P'u Sung-ling from 1668?
(a) Behind a fan.
(b) In a garden.
(c) Below a box.
(d) Above the stairs.

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

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

5. What skill does the woman who makes medical prescriptions have in one of the stories told by P'u Sung-ling from 1668?
(a) Violinist.
(b) Ventriloquist.
(c) Singer.
(d) Dancer.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. To whom does the goddess ask the man to write a challenge in the second magic story by P'u Sung-ling from 1668?

4. What do the officials want to receive in the first magic story by P'u Sung-ling from 1668?

5. P'u Sung-ling tells stories about scholars and ladies and ________________.

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