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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. Who lacks an heir after the death of the young boy in the Woman P'eng story?
(a) Hsi-hu.
(b) Huang.
(c) P'eng.
(d) Ch'ang.

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

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

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

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

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

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

14. What do some soldiers in T'an-ch'eng do when the change of government occurs?
(a) Rip, scream, and shout.
(b) Drink, feast, and be merry.
(c) Cry, shout, and revel.
(d) Rape, pillage, and murder.

15. After what event in 1641 is there an attack on the city by bandits?
(a) Earthquake.
(b) Tornado.
(c) Famine.
(d) Death.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is NOT part of the loot when the city is ransacked?

3. What apparition do the people in T'ang-ch'eng believe in?

4. In "Hsi-liu," who has difficulty learning to read?

5. What story is about people who survive through their magical powers?

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