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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 Jen's wife see with a tumor sticking out of him?
(a) Her husband.
(b) A lawyer.
(c) A beaten man.
(d) A priest.

2. Who is jealous of P'u Sung-ling's new wife?
(a) Husbands of sisters.
(b) Sisters.
(c) Brothers.
(d) Wives of brothers.

3. What does the widow force the lazy person to do in one of P'u Sung-Ling's stories about widows?
(a) Work in the fields.
(b) Fight men.
(c) Count sheep.
(d) Herd pigs.

4. Since the widow does not have any rights at all, what do the cousins believe that by killing the boy they could get in the Woman P'eng story?
(a) Prostitutes.
(b) Land.
(c) House.
(d) Inheritance.

5. Who met a young woman named Ts'ui-hsien at a religious ceremony?
(a) Ts'ui-hsien.
(b) P'u Sung-ling.
(c) Ts'ai.
(d) Manchu.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who forms a band of villagers for mutual defense against the robbers?

2. What is the town that is looted by bandits?

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

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

5. What does the killer of the boy expect as he claims the murder was revenge in the Woman P'eng story?

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