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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Woman Who Ran Away.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Ts'ui Meng adopt for a year?
(a) Peddler.
(b) Slave child.
(c) Young boy.
(d) Young girl.

2. In a P'u Sung-ling story, what does a woman do with a peasant in the grass?
(a) Eat food.
(b) Fight.
(c) Have sex.
(d) Sleep.

3. How far away do workers have to go for forced labor in Huang's story?
(a) 100 miles.
(b) 25 miles.
(c) 2000 miles.
(d) 400 miles.

4. What story is about people who survive through their magical powers?
(a) Hsiao-erh.
(b) White Lotus.
(c) Hung.
(d) Ting.

5. With the lack of public order and security, what is a big problem in one of P'u Sung-Ling's stories?
(a) Death.
(b) Officers.
(c) Corruption.
(d) Bandits.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Jen's wife go after being abandoned?

2. To what spirit is a shrine made in T'ang-ch'eng to protect from evil spirits in the 17th century?

3. Who is just a stand-in for the rights of a son in the story of P'eng?

4. When a wife starves her mother-in-law, what does her husband do secretly in one of P'u Sung-Ling's stories?

5. Who by law stands to gain the inheritance lawfully in the Woman P'eng story?

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