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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the young couple buy for themselves after they elope?
(a) Farm and implements.
(b) Furniture and clothes.
(c) A house and animals.
(d) Drugs and supplies.

2. Who attacks the couple and have to be stopped by magic?
(a) Aliens.
(b) Bandits.
(c) Refugees.
(d) Tribal people.

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

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

5. What does the widow with the two sons run well in one of P'u Sung-Ling's stories about widows?
(a) Bar.
(b) Family business.
(c) Restaurant.
(d) Home.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who took over China in 1644?

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

3. According to what custom does a woman return dowry to her husband's family?

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

5. What apparition do the people in T'ang-ch'eng believe in?

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