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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Trial.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is educated to read and write by her scholar father and then struggles to raise two boys in one of P'u Sung-Ling's stories about widows?
(a) Ch'ang-hu.
(b) Hsi-liu.
(c) Ch'ang-fu.
(d) Huang.

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

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

4. What scheme does the husband's relatives have to inherit the widow's property in Woman P'eng?
(a) Kill the son.
(b) Kidnap the son.
(c) Kill the widow.
(d) Kidnap the widow.

5. What is set off in the hills by a servant to divert the robbers while rescuing Ts'ui's wife in one of P'u Sung-Ling's stories?
(a) Flame.
(b) Sounds.
(c) Smoke.
(d) Lights.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. After the death of his wife, where does Jen and his father walk?

3. What is the intense violence in the story of P'u Sung-ling's personal life centered around?

4. In the story of Woman P'eng, what is the name of the young son?

5. Who is the magistrate overseeing the case of the murder?

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