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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the old woman fantasize about her guest in one of P'u Sung-Ling's stories about widows?
(a) Sleeping with her.
(b) Sleeping with him.
(c) Traveling with him.
(d) Talking to her.

2. What is another name for forced labor in Huang's story?
(a) Yu-yu.
(b) Lee-huang.
(c) Lin-yu.
(d) Corvee.

3. What do the young couple buy for themselves after they elope?
(a) Drugs and supplies.
(b) Farm and implements.
(c) A house and animals.
(d) Furniture and clothes.

4. In "The Local History of T'an-ch'eng," who do widows struggle to raise?
(a) Prostitutes.
(b) Daughters.
(c) Sons.
(d) Husbands.

5. Who does not understand the law and thinks it is more convoluted that it is in fact in the Woman P'eng story?
(a) Widow.
(b) Cousin.
(c) Father.
(d) Son.

6. What does the younger son end up becoming after going to jail in "Hsi-liu?"
(a) A successful scholar.
(b) A successful student.
(c) A successful merchant.
(d) A successful father.

7. To what spirit is a shrine made in T'ang-ch'eng to protect from evil spirits in the 17th century?
(a) T'an-ch'eng.
(b) P'u Sung-ling.
(c) Yu-yu.
(d) Tseng-yu.

8. What system is used to maintain public order, police functions, and militia defense to deal with attacks by bandits in Huang's story?
(a) Manchu.
(b) Chin-Chon.
(c) Pao-chia.
(d) Imperial.

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

10. In what story does a naive man have to acquire crickets?
(a) The Game Cricket.
(b) The Cricket Tax.
(c) The Chinese Cricket.
(d) The Fighting Cricket.

11. Who does Liu meet with the police who is threatened by starvation?
(a) His spirit medium.
(b) A married couple.
(c) His magistrate.
(d) His fox spirit.

12. The majority of people rebel against what Emperor?
(a) Tseng-yu.
(b) Manchu.
(c) Yu-yu.
(d) Liu.

13. Who is dragged out of school and beaten to death in the Woman P'eng story?
(a) Ch'ang.
(b) Lien.
(c) Pin-po.
(d) Ho-to.

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

15. Who made up a story that the boy's father killed their father during the chaos of the Manchu invasions?
(a) Aunts.
(b) Sisters.
(c) Cousins.
(d) Uncles.

Short Answer Questions

1. From whom does the young girl learn magical powers in one of P'u Sung-Ling's stories?

2. Why is Ting arrested?

3. What does a rich bandit give the couple?

4. What is cruelly enforced in the countryside more than the city according to the magistrate?

5. What northern group attacks from the north and loots the city prior to taking over China?

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