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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What story is about people who survive through their magical powers?
(a) White Lotus.
(b) Hung.
(c) Ting.
(d) Hsiao-erh.

2. Who does the young boy see leading government officials in the first magic story by P'u Sung-ling from 1668?
(a) Lawyer and son.
(b) Artist and cook.
(c) Writer and daughter.
(d) Magician and son.

3. Huang tells a story about a heavy snowfall in what year?
(a) 1234.
(b) 1456.
(c) 1789.
(d) 1671.

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

5. What is the exam that the sons of widows need to pass?
(a) Mu-chu.
(b) Ch'ang-hu.
(c) Ch'ang-fu.
(d) Chu-jen.

6. Who, when captured and thrown in fire, claims to be part of a rebel household?
(a) Magistrate.
(b) Fox spirit.
(c) Magical spirit.
(d) Spirit medium.

7. What do the officials want to receive in the first magic story by P'u Sung-ling from 1668?
(a) A book.
(b) A peach.
(c) A jar.
(d) A dollar.

8. By the Chinese law, what does the boy's killer receive in the Woman P'eng story?
(a) Death sentence.
(b) Strangling.
(c) Bribe.
(d) Forgiveness.

9. P'u Sung-ling tells stories about scholars and ladies and ________________.
(a) Fruit collections.
(b) Platonic relationships.
(c) Funeral expenses.
(d) Sexual affairs.

10. What subject is some of the widows knowledgeable about?
(a) Science.
(b) Religion.
(c) Law.
(d) Philosophy.

11. What northern group attacks from the north and loots the city prior to taking over China?
(a) Matou.
(b) Manchu.
(c) Huang.
(d) Tang.

12. What are taxes used to maintain in Huang's story?
(a) Imperial roads.
(b) Chin-Chon roads.
(c) Kaoling roads.
(d) Manchu roads.

13. How does a woman make medical prescriptions in one of the stories told by P'u Sung-ling from 1668?
(a) With a fox spirit.
(b) With drugs.
(c) With a magistrate.
(d) With magical spirits.

14. What does the killer of the boy expect as he claims the murder was revenge in the Woman P'eng story?
(a) Leniency.
(b) Acceptance.
(c) Inheritance.
(d) Rewards.

15. What are the two major crops in Peking during the heavy snowfall described in Huang's story?
(a) Sorghum and beets.
(b) Sorghum and barley.
(c) Winter wheat and sorghum.
(d) Sorghum and potatoes.

Short Answer Questions

1. The majority of people rebel against what Emperor?

2. How does Ting's partner feed the starving people during the famine?

3. Why is Ting arrested?

4. Who is just a stand-in for the rights of a son in the story of P'eng?

5. What does a rich bandit give the couple?

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