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

2. In what story does a naive man have to acquire crickets?
(a) The Chinese Cricket.
(b) The Fighting Cricket.
(c) The Game Cricket.
(d) The Cricket Tax.

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

4. Who nominates a new heir for P'eng?
(a) Her sister.
(b) Husband's stepson.
(c) Husband's clan.
(d) Her family.

5. In Jen's wife's dream, where is she sitting?
(a) A bench.
(b) A swing.
(c) A sofa.
(d) A library stool.

Short Answer Questions

1. What act does the official consider morally evil and degrading that many people in China are doing?

2. How old is P'u Sung-ling when his father contracts a marriage for him?

3. Who is dragged out of school and beaten to death in the Woman P'eng story?

4. What storage facilities are abandoned during the time of the famine?

5. In Huang's "Local History," who are pressed to remarry?

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