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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 naive and uneducated head man of the village driven to while trying to pay tax?
(a) Tears.
(b) Suicide.
(c) Frustration.
(d) Town.

2. 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) Singer.
(c) Ventriloquist.
(d) Dancer.

3. What apparition do the people in T'ang-ch'eng believe in?
(a) Heretics.
(b) Soothsayers.
(c) Ghosts.
(d) Vampires.

4. What does the official of T'ang-ch'eng get Peking officials to lower?
(a) Levees.
(b) Cost of gold.
(c) Tax rates.
(d) Corvee.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What northern group attacks from the north and loots the city prior to taking over China?

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

3. From whom does the young girl learn magical powers in one of P'u Sung-Ling's stories?

4. Who is the writer that says this earthquake is one of the natural disasters of the time?

5. In the first magic story by P'u Sung-ling from 1668, what event does a young boy attend?

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