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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 deny doing?
(a) Killing Jen's wife.
(b) Fighting with Jen.
(c) Fighting with Jen's wife.
(d) Killing Jen.

2. What is Jen doing to his wife as she is dreaming?
(a) Mocking her.
(b) Talking to her.
(c) Dancing with her.
(d) Strangling her.

3. Who is talking to the men on the night watch during the night of the murder?
(a) Jen's wife.
(b) Tsao's wife.
(c) Kao's wife.
(d) Huang's wife.

4. How does the man who came to judge Ts'ui for his crime know him?
(a) He was a friend of the family.
(b) He was the son of a widow.
(c) He was the Taoist monk.
(d) He was the young refugee boy.

5. What or whom do the people have fear of after the murder case?
(a) Ts'uai's ghost.
(b) Kao's ghost.
(c) Wang's ghost.
(d) Jen's ghost.

6. What is a job that Jen's wife can do as a single woman?
(a) Business woman.
(b) Killer.
(c) Priest.
(d) Nurse.

7. What kind of a dream does Jen's wife have?
(a) Surreal.
(b) Realistic.
(c) Playful.
(d) Joyful.

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

9. 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) Ts'ui Meng.
(b) Din Dan.
(c) P'u Sung-ling.
(d) Li Chen.

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

11. Who kills the murderer that was protected by correct officials?
(a) Huang.
(b) Tao.
(c) Wang.
(d) Li.

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

13. Who ends up becoming Li's servant for a year?
(a) Tao.
(b) Ts'ui.
(c) Huang.
(d) Wang.

14. What does Jen claim a man did to take his wife from him?
(a) Beat him.
(b) Rip the mattress.
(c) Threaten him with a knife.
(d) Kidnap her.

15. Why does someone else have to pay burial expenses for Jen's wife?
(a) For hitting Kao.
(b) For hitting Ts'uai.
(c) For hitting Jen.
(d) For hitting Wang.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where does Jen's wife go after being abandoned?

3. Who murders the cruel wife with a knife who starved her mother-in-law in one of P'u Sung-Ling's stories?

4. Who is the magistrate who carefully plots a strategy to kill or capture the Wang gangsters?

5. What is the punishment for the murderer apart from beating?

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