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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 is the town that is looted by bandits?
(a) Huang Liu-hung.
(b) North-South Grand.
(c) Ma-t'ou.
(d) T'ang-Ch'en.

2. What system is used to maintain public order, police functions, and militia defense to deal with attacks by bandits in Huang's story?
(a) Pao-chia.
(b) Imperial.
(c) Manchu.
(d) Chin-Chon.

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

4. What is used for fertilizer for sorghum cultivation in Peking in Huang's story?
(a) Vegetable compost.
(b) Human and animal waste.
(c) Artificial pellets.
(d) Coal and wood pellets.

5. What are the two major crops in Peking during the heavy snowfall described in Huang's story?
(a) Sorghum and beets.
(b) Winter wheat and sorghum.
(c) Sorghum and barley.
(d) Sorghum and potatoes.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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 is the name of the Revolution described in one of P'u Sung-Ling's stories?

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

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