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

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

3. What do the young couple buy for themselves after they elope?
(a) Drugs and supplies.
(b) A house and animals.
(c) Furniture and clothes.
(d) Farm and implements.

4. How does Ting's partner feed the starving people during the famine?
(a) With magic.
(b) With edible thistles.
(c) Via a storm.
(d) Through an emergency shelter.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is another name for forced labor in Huang's story?

2. What northern group attacks from the north and loots the city prior to taking over China?

3. What does the widow with the two sons run well in one of P'u Sung-Ling's stories about widows?

4. Why is Ting arrested?

5. What does the killer of the boy expect as he claims the murder was revenge in the Woman P'eng story?

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