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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What system is used to maintain public order, police functions, and militia defense to deal with attacks by bandits in Huang's story?
(a) Manchu.
(b) Imperial.
(c) Pao-chia.
(d) Chin-Chon.

2. Who nominates a new heir for P'eng?
(a) Her sister.
(b) Husband's stepson.
(c) Her family.
(d) Husband's clan.

3. Who does not understand the law and thinks it is more convoluted that it is in fact in the Woman P'eng story?
(a) Father.
(b) Son.
(c) Cousin.
(d) Widow.

4. What do the couple pose as from the fighting around them?
(a) Tribal people.
(b) Bandits.
(c) Warriors.
(d) Refugees.

5. Who does Liu meet with the police who is threatened by starvation?
(a) His magistrate.
(b) His fox spirit.
(c) His spirit medium.
(d) A married couple.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Ting confess his love to?

2. What do the young couple set up as a new occupation after Ting is freed by a large bribe?

3. What subject is some of the widows knowledgeable about?

4. What skill does the woman who makes medical prescriptions have in one of the stories told by P'u Sung-ling from 1668?

5. What scheme does the husband's relatives have to inherit the widow's property in Woman P'eng?

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