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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What storage facilities are abandoned during the time of the famine?
(a) Labor.
(b) Grain.
(c) Gold.
(d) Silver.

2. Who made up a story that the boy's father killed their father during the chaos of the Manchu invasions?
(a) Uncles.
(b) Cousins.
(c) Aunts.
(d) Sisters.

3. What does the magistrate notice that people do in order to cheat on taxes?
(a) Steal property.
(b) Rebel.
(c) Falsify records.
(d) Lower land quality.

4. Who is dragged out of school and beaten to death in the Woman P'eng story?
(a) Lien.
(b) Ch'ang.
(c) Pin-po.
(d) Ho-to.

5. Huang tells a story about a heavy snowfall in what year?
(a) 1234.
(b) 1671.
(c) 1456.
(d) 1789.

Short Answer Questions

1. What story is about people who survive through their magical powers?

2. From what position is Feng fired?

3. What do some soldiers in T'an-ch'eng do when the change of government occurs?

4. What are people forced to do even if they are naked during an earthquake?

5. Since the widow does not have any rights at all, what do the cousins believe that by killing the boy they could get in the Woman P'eng story?

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