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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 are people forced to do even if they are naked during an earthquake?
(a) Stay inside.
(b) Hide.
(c) Stay outside.
(d) Run.

2. What is the name of the Revolution described in one of P'u Sung-Ling's stories?
(a) Hsiao-erh.
(b) Hung.
(c) Ting.
(d) White Lotus.

3. 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.

4. What is another name for sorghum?
(a) Peking Duck.
(b) T'an Cheng.
(c) Huang.
(d) Kaoliang.

5. What is NOT part of the loot when the city is ransacked?
(a) Silver.
(b) People.
(c) Guns.
(d) Gold.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the official of T'ang-ch'eng get Peking officials to lower?

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

3. What act does the official consider morally evil and degrading that many people in China are doing?

4. Huang tells a story about a heavy snowfall in what year?

5. What do the young couple buy for themselves after they elope?

(see the answer key)

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