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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. According to what custom does a woman return dowry to her husband's family?
(a) Ch'ang-hu inheritance.
(b) Chinese legal code.
(c) P'eng policy.
(d) Hsi-liu notary.

2. What does the couple use to elope?
(a) Locusts.
(b) Animals.
(c) Broomsticks.
(d) Magical kites.

3. What is NOT part of the loot when the city is ransacked?
(a) People.
(b) Silver.
(c) Guns.
(d) Gold.

4. Whose nephew starts up a gang that attacks Ts'ui?
(a) Huang.
(b) Li.
(c) Wang.
(d) Tao.

5. What happens to Ts'ui-hsien's husband when he enters his wife's mother's home?
(a) He is in the lap of luxury.
(b) He hurts himself.
(c) He falls down a cliff.
(d) He is justified in killing his wife.

Short Answer Questions

1. By the Chinese law, what does the boy's killer receive in the Woman P'eng story?

2. What do P'u Sung-ling and his wife receive from his father to start their new life?

3. Why is Ting arrested?

4. In order to keep the family peace, what does P'u Sung-ling's father have to do?

5. Who writes the misery of the peasants during the ransacking?

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