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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 is an official who passed his scholarly chu-jen examination?
(a) Ma-t'ou.
(b) Huang Liu-hung.
(c) T'ang-ch'eng.
(d) Feng K'o-t'san.

2. When the lazy person returns and begs the widow, what role does he assume again?
(a) Prostitute.
(b) Peddler.
(c) Student.
(d) Teacher.

3. Who does Ts'ui Meng talk to that his mother helped?
(a) Refugee.
(b) Taoist monk.
(c) Peddler.
(d) Slave girl.

4. 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?
(a) P'u Sung-ling.
(b) Din Dan.
(c) Ts'ui Meng.
(d) Li Chen.

5. What act does the official consider morally evil and degrading that many people in China are doing?
(a) Drinking.
(b) Suicide.
(c) Sleeping.
(d) Fornicating.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. P'u Sung-ling told a story about a woman who had a relationship with a nobleman and was pregnant. What happened to her?

3. Who, when captured and thrown in fire, claims to be part of a rebel household?

4. What is a job that Jen's wife can do as a single woman?

5. As power changed hands in China in 1644, what did not decline?

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