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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What system is used to maintain public order, police functions, and militia defense to deal with attacks by bandits in Huang's story?
(a) Pao-chia.
(b) Manchu.
(c) Chin-Chon.
(d) Imperial.

2. How does a woman make medical prescriptions in one of the stories told by P'u Sung-ling from 1668?
(a) With a fox spirit.
(b) With magical spirits.
(c) With drugs.
(d) With a magistrate.

3. What is the exam that the sons of widows need to pass?
(a) Mu-chu.
(b) Ch'ang-hu.
(c) Ch'ang-fu.
(d) Chu-jen.

4. What apparition do the people in T'ang-ch'eng believe in?
(a) Vampires.
(b) Ghosts.
(c) Heretics.
(d) Soothsayers.

5. Who made up a story that the boy's father killed their father during the chaos of the Manchu invasions?
(a) Uncles.
(b) Aunts.
(c) Cousins.
(d) Sisters.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who makes himself the law and uses his violent abilities to right what he sees as injustices in one of P'u Sung-ling's stories?

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

3. Whose nephew starts up a gang that attacks Ts'ui?

4. P'u Sung-ling tells stories about scholars and ladies and ________________.

5. To whom does the goddess ask the man to write a challenge in the second magic story by P'u Sung-ling from 1668?

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