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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the intense violence in the story of P'u Sung-ling's personal life centered around?
(a) Land.
(b) Family.
(c) Monks.
(d) Business.

3. What is cruelly enforced in the countryside more than the city according to the magistrate?
(a) Prisons.
(b) Magic.
(c) Tax.
(d) Laws.

4. What do the couple pose as from the fighting around them?
(a) Bandits.
(b) Warriors.
(c) Tribal people.
(d) Refugees.

5. Who kills the murderer that was protected by correct officials?
(a) Tao.
(b) Huang.
(c) Wang.
(d) Li.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is protected by corrupt officials despite killing a wife in one of P'u Sung-Ling's stories?

3. Who attacks the couple and have to be stopped by magic?

4. What famous philosopher has ties to T'ang-ch'eng?

5. Who is the local farmer who steps over the adjoining Wang land boundary with his livestock?

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