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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As power changed hands in China in 1644, what did not decline?
(a) Corvee.
(b) Taxes.
(c) Population.
(d) Productivity.

2. Who is talking to the men on the night watch during the night of the murder?
(a) Jen's wife.
(b) Kao's wife.
(c) Tsao's wife.
(d) Huang's wife.

3. 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) Lights.
(b) Sounds.
(c) Smoke.
(d) Flame.

4. Who does the widow beat because he is lazy in one of P'u Sung-Ling's stories about widows?
(a) Huang.
(b) Ch'ang-hu.
(c) Hsi-liu.
(d) Ch'ang-fu.

5. How does Ting's partner feed the starving people during the famine?
(a) With magic.
(b) With edible thistles.
(c) Through an emergency shelter.
(d) Via a storm.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Jen fights with the neighbor, where does his wife go?

2. Who is locked up after the alibi is proven about the supposed murderer?

3. Who does Ts'ui kill in revenge for the suffering of the man he met while traveling with his mother?

4. Who does the widower take as a new wife after his wife is murdered in one of P'u Sung-Ling's stories?

5. What happens to Ts'ui-hsien's husband when he enters his wife's mother's home?

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