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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Widow.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As power changed hands in China in 1644, what did not decline?
(a) Corvee.
(b) Taxes.
(c) Productivity.
(d) Population.

2. Who does the young boy see leading government officials in the first magic story by P'u Sung-ling from 1668?
(a) Writer and daughter.
(b) Artist and cook.
(c) Lawyer and son.
(d) Magician and son.

3. Who by law stands to gain the inheritance lawfully in the Woman P'eng story?
(a) Son.
(b) Father.
(c) Mother.
(d) Sister.

4. What is a profession of parents in "The Local History of T'an-ch'eng?"
(a) Shooting hoops.
(b) Reading fantasy.
(c) Gambling.
(d) Spinning thread.

5. Who is educated to read and write by her scholar father and then struggles to raise two boys in one of P'u Sung-Ling's stories about widows?
(a) Ch'ang-hu.
(b) Ch'ang-fu.
(c) Huang.
(d) Hsi-liu.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is NOT part of the loot when the city is ransacked?

2. How far away do workers have to go for forced labor in Huang's story?

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

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

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

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