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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who visits an old woman who is spinning in one of P'u Sung-Ling's stories about widows?
(a) Young man.
(b) Old man.
(c) Young woman.
(d) Old priest.

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

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

4. What is another name for sorghum?
(a) Kaoliang.
(b) Huang.
(c) Peking Duck.
(d) T'an Cheng.

5. Who nominates a new heir for P'eng?
(a) Her family.
(b) Husband's stepson.
(c) Her sister.
(d) Husband's clan.

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

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

8. What is a profession of parents in "The Local History of T'an-ch'eng?"
(a) Gambling.
(b) Shooting hoops.
(c) Spinning thread.
(d) Reading fantasy.

9. What is a county in Northeastern China, in the province of Shantung?
(a) T'ang-Huang.
(b) T'ang-Liu.
(c) T'ang-Canal.
(d) T'ang-Ch'en.

10. Who is the writer that says this earthquake is one of the natural disasters of the time?
(a) Feng K'o-t'san.
(b) Huang Liu-hung.
(c) T'ang-Ch'en.
(d) T'ang-Liu.

11. What is the naive and uneducated head man of the village driven to while trying to pay tax?
(a) Town.
(b) Frustration.
(c) Suicide.
(d) Tears.

12. What apparition do the people in T'ang-ch'eng believe in?
(a) Heretics.
(b) Soothsayers.
(c) Ghosts.
(d) Vampires.

13. What do the young couple set up as a new occupation after Ting is freed by a large bribe?
(a) Tax accountancy firm.
(b) Shoe shop.
(c) Glass factory.
(d) Herbal shop.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who, when captured and thrown in fire, claims to be part of a rebel household?

2. 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?

3. Who writes the misery of the peasants during the ransacking?

4. In "Hsi-liu," how old is the widow when she is forced to raise two sons on her own?

5. P'u Sung-ling tells stories about scholars and ladies and ________________.

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