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

2. What does the couple use to elope?
(a) Magical kites.
(b) Animals.
(c) Locusts.
(d) Broomsticks.

3. In the second magic story, what does a man who falls asleep dream of?
(a) Books.
(b) Peaches.
(c) Gifts.
(d) Flowers.

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

5. Who by law stands to gain the inheritance lawfully in the Woman P'eng story?
(a) Sister.
(b) Son.
(c) Mother.
(d) Father.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who made up a story that the boy's father killed their father during the chaos of the Manchu invasions?

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

4. How does a woman make medical prescriptions in one of the stories told by P'u Sung-ling from 1668?

5. What apparition do the people in T'ang-ch'eng believe in?

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