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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) A house and animals.
(c) Furniture and clothes.
(d) Drugs and supplies.

2. What are taxes used to maintain in Huang's story?
(a) Manchu roads.
(b) Kaoling roads.
(c) Chin-Chon roads.
(d) Imperial roads.

3. Who is an official who passed his scholarly chu-jen examination?
(a) T'ang-ch'eng.
(b) Feng K'o-t'san.
(c) Huang Liu-hung.
(d) Ma-t'ou.

4. What does the widow force the lazy person to do in one of P'u Sung-Ling's stories about widows?
(a) Fight men.
(b) Count sheep.
(c) Work in the fields.
(d) Herd pigs.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why is Ting arrested?

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

4. What is the naive and uneducated head man of the village driven to while trying to pay tax?

5. Who does the young boy see leading government officials in the first magic story by P'u Sung-ling from 1668?

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