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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jen's wife's supposed killer admit to doing?
(a) Hitting Jen.
(b) Hitting Huang.
(c) Hitting Ts'ao.
(d) Hitting Kao.

2. Who makes himself the law and uses his violent abilities to right what he sees as injustices in one of P'u Sung-ling's stories?
(a) Din Dan.
(b) Ts'ui Meng.
(c) P'u Sung-ling.
(d) Li Chen.

3. Who is arrested as being guilty of killing Jen's wife?
(a) Jen and his father.
(b) Kao and his wife.
(c) Ts'ao and her brother.
(d) Huang and his wife.

4. Who met a young woman named Ts'ui-hsien at a religious ceremony?
(a) Ts'ai.
(b) Manchu.
(c) Ts'ui-hsien.
(d) P'u Sung-ling.

5. Who does Ts'ui Meng adopt for a year?
(a) Peddler.
(b) Young boy.
(c) Young girl.
(d) Slave child.

6. Who defends the alibi of the supposed murderer?
(a) Tsao's wife.
(b) Huang's wife.
(c) Jen's wife.
(d) Kao's wife.

7. In China, often women did not have rights and were sold as __________.
(a) Soldiers.
(b) Runners.
(c) Lovers.
(d) Concubines.

8. Where does Jen dump the body after he hears the village watchmen?
(a) Swing.
(b) Kao's house.
(c) Snow.
(d) Huang's house.

9. What happened to the man who was beaten that Ts'ui and his mother met?
(a) He was being punished for stealing.
(b) He lost his fortune.
(c) He was being punished for losing.
(d) He lost his wife in gambling.

10. When Huang reconstructs the crime, who admits guilt?
(a) Hissu.
(b) Jen.
(c) Kao.
(d) Ts'ao.

11. When does Huang go to Jen's house to examine evidence?
(a) That morning.
(b) Next day.
(c) Next evening.
(d) That night.

12. What is the pile near the mat that Huang notices?
(a) Clothes.
(b) Cangue.
(c) Dried human waste.
(d) Shell fish.

13. Who does Jen accuse of killing his wife?
(a) Hissu.
(b) Kao.
(c) Huang.
(d) Su.

14. Who rescues Ts'ui's wife who is captured in one of P'u Sung-Ling's stories?
(a) Wang.
(b) Li.
(c) Tao.
(d) Huang.

15. Who does Jen's wife see with a tumor sticking out of him?
(a) Her husband.
(b) A lawyer.
(c) A beaten man.
(d) A priest.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Ts'ui-hsien's husband goes to jail, what happens to him?

2. When Jen's wife tears the sleeping mat, what does she do?

3. What is the intense violence in the story of P'u Sung-ling's personal life centered around?

4. When Jen's wife's body is examined, what is noticed about her?

5. What happens to Ts'ui-hsien's husband when he enters his wife's mother's home?

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