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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a county in Northeastern China, in the province of Shantung?
(a) T'ang-Canal.
(b) T'ang-Liu.
(c) T'ang-Ch'en.
(d) T'ang-Huang.

2. 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.

3. What are people forced to do even if they are naked during an earthquake?
(a) Stay outside.
(b) Hide.
(c) Stay inside.
(d) Run.

4. How does a woman make medical prescriptions in one of the stories told by P'u Sung-ling from 1668?
(a) With drugs.
(b) With a fox spirit.
(c) With a magistrate.
(d) With magical spirits.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the exam that the sons of widows need to pass?

3. In "Hsi-liu," how old is the widow when she is forced to raise two sons on her own?

4. Who writes the misery of the peasants during the ransacking?

5. The majority of people rebel against what Emperor?

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