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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the two major crops in Peking during the heavy snowfall described in Huang's story?
(a) Winter wheat and sorghum.
(b) Sorghum and beets.
(c) Sorghum and barley.
(d) Sorghum and potatoes.

2. Who, when captured and thrown in fire, claims to be part of a rebel household?
(a) Fox spirit.
(b) Magistrate.
(c) Spirit medium.
(d) Magical spirit.

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

4. In "The Local History of T'an-ch'eng," who do widows struggle to raise?
(a) Prostitutes.
(b) Sons.
(c) Daughters.
(d) Husbands.

5. Who visits an old woman who is spinning in one of P'u Sung-Ling's stories about widows?
(a) Old man.
(b) Old priest.
(c) Young man.
(d) Young woman.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is another name for sorghum?

2. Who lacks an heir after the death of the young boy in the Woman P'eng story?

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

4. Who is drinking with a cousin during the earthquake of 1668?

5. Who by law stands to gain the inheritance lawfully in the Woman P'eng story?

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