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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is cruelly enforced in the countryside more than the city according to the magistrate?
(a) Prisons.
(b) Laws.
(c) Tax.
(d) Magic.

2. What are people forced to do even if they are naked during an earthquake?
(a) Stay outside.
(b) Hide.
(c) Run.
(d) Stay inside.

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

4. In the first magic story by P'u Sung-ling from 1668, what event does a young boy attend?
(a) Parade.
(b) Dance show.
(c) Concert.
(d) Musical.

5. When does an earthquake occur in the capital of the Northeast county in China?
(a) 1968.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1967.
(d) 1988.

6. 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) Huang.
(b) Hsi-liu.
(c) Ch'ang-fu.
(d) Ch'ang-hu.

7. What does the widow force the lazy person to do in one of P'u Sung-Ling's stories about widows?
(a) Fight men.
(b) Work in the fields.
(c) Count sheep.
(d) Herd pigs.

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

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

10. Who is an official who passed his scholarly chu-jen examination?
(a) Feng K'o-t'san.
(b) T'ang-ch'eng.
(c) Huang Liu-hung.
(d) Ma-t'ou.

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

12. What famous philosopher has ties to T'ang-ch'eng?
(a) P'u Sung-ling.
(b) Tseng-yu.
(c) Confucius.
(d) Yu-yu.

13. To whom does the goddess ask the man to write a challenge in the second magic story by P'u Sung-ling from 1668?
(a) Sun.
(b) Wind.
(c) Water.
(d) Ghost.

14. Who writes the misery of the peasants during the ransacking?
(a) Huang Liu-hung.
(b) T'ang-ch'eng.
(c) Feng K'o-t'san.
(d) Ma-t'ou.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does not understand the law and thinks it is more convoluted that it is in fact in the Woman P'eng story?

2. Who does the widow beat because he is lazy in one of P'u Sung-Ling's stories about widows?

3. 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?

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

5. What does the magistrate notice that people do in order to cheat on taxes?

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