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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who by law stands to gain the inheritance lawfully in the Woman P'eng story?
(a) Father.
(b) Son.
(c) Sister.
(d) Mother.

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

3. 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) Ghost.
(b) Sun.
(c) Water.
(d) Wind.

4. What does a rich bandit give the couple?
(a) 1,000 taels.
(b) 2,000 taels.
(c) 3,000 taels.
(d) 4,000 taels.

5. What storage facilities are abandoned during the time of the famine?
(a) Labor.
(b) Gold.
(c) Grain.
(d) Silver.

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

7. What is the name of the Revolution described in one of P'u Sung-Ling's stories?
(a) Hsiao-erh.
(b) Ting.
(c) Hung.
(d) White Lotus.

8. 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.

9. From what position is Feng fired?
(a) Public officer.
(b) Taoist mystic.
(c) Marshall.
(d) Magistrate.

10. 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) Count sheep.
(c) Herd pigs.
(d) Work in the fields.

11. What act does the official consider morally evil and degrading that many people in China are doing?
(a) Fornicating.
(b) Suicide.
(c) Drinking.
(d) Sleeping.

12. What do the couple pose as from the fighting around them?
(a) Bandits.
(b) Tribal people.
(c) Warriors.
(d) Refugees.

13. 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?
(a) House.
(b) Prostitutes.
(c) Inheritance.
(d) Land.

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

15. In "Hsi-liu," how old is the widow when she is forced to raise two sons on her own?
(a) 35.
(b) 55.
(c) 25.
(d) 45.

Short Answer Questions

1. From where does a woman who is a spirit medium produce a voice in one of the stories told by P'u Sung-ling from 1668?

2. In the second magic story, what does a man who falls asleep dream of?

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. Who does the young boy see leading government officials in the first magic story by P'u Sung-ling from 1668?

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