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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the naive and uneducated head man of the village driven to while trying to pay tax?
(a) Frustration.
(b) Tears.
(c) Town.
(d) Suicide.

2. What does the magistrate notice that people do in order to cheat on taxes?
(a) Rebel.
(b) Falsify records.
(c) Lower land quality.
(d) Steal property.

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

4. What does the younger son end up becoming after going to jail in "Hsi-liu?"
(a) A successful scholar.
(b) A successful father.
(c) A successful merchant.
(d) A successful student.

5. Who is the local farmer who steps over the adjoining Wang land boundary with his livestock?
(a) Wang Dang.
(b) Li Tung-chen.
(c) Yu Piao.
(d) Kuan Ming-yo.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the widow beat because he is lazy in one of P'u Sung-Ling's stories about widows?

2. Who does the young boy see leading government officials in the first magic story by P'u Sung-ling from 1668?

3. Who comes to judge Ts'ui for his crime of murder?

4. The majority of people rebel against what Emperor?

5. Since the widow does not have any rights at all, what do the cousins believe that by killing the boy they could get in the Woman P'eng story?

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