View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do P'u Sung-ling and his wife receive from his father to start their new life?
(a) Land, clothes, and money.
(b) Land, cottage, and grain.
(c) Tools, shed, and machines.
(d) Cottage, food, and gin.

2. Where does Jen dump the body after he hears the village watchmen?
(a) Huang's house.
(b) Swing.
(c) Kao's house.
(d) Snow.

3. Who is Ts'ui Meng supposed to become friends with in order to save his life when he has committed too many crimes?
(a) Peddler.
(b) Taoist monk.
(c) Slave girl.
(d) Refugee.

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

5. What does the snowfall fail to lessen in Huang's story?
(a) Air conditioning bill.
(b) Electric bill.
(c) Drought.
(d) Tax burden.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who does Liu meet with the police who is threatened by starvation?

3. What do the young couple set up as a new occupation after Ting is freed by a large bribe?

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

5. In Huang's "Local History," who are pressed to remarry?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 222 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample