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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is considered less valuable than a killer?
(a) Good looking man.
(b) Adulterous wife.
(c) Rich woman.
(d) Lucky man.

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

3. Who does Ts'ui Meng talk to that his mother helped?
(a) Peddler.
(b) Refugee.
(c) Taoist monk.
(d) Slave girl.

4. Who is Jen's neighbor who sees Jen's wife when she is hiding?
(a) Huang.
(b) Tao.
(c) Hichi.
(d) Kao.

5. Who is released upon Ts'ui's confession of guilt in court?
(a) Li.
(b) Wang.
(c) Tao.
(d) Huang.

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

7. With the lack of public order and security, what is a big problem in one of P'u Sung-Ling's stories?
(a) Corruption.
(b) Death.
(c) Bandits.
(d) Officers.

8. Who is jealous of P'u Sung-ling's new wife?
(a) Sisters.
(b) Wives of brothers.
(c) Brothers.
(d) Husbands of sisters.

9. When could a Chinese husband kill a wife according to the law?
(a) If he became a concubine.
(b) If he caught his wife having sex.
(c) If he was angry.
(d) If he found himself another partner.

10. When a husband died or even castrated himself, women often did what in China?
(a) Gave up.
(b) Remarried.
(c) Fought them.
(d) Committed suicide.

11. Who is locked up after the alibi is proven about the supposed murderer?
(a) Jen.
(b) Huang.
(c) Tsao.
(d) Kao.

12. When the beautiful surroundings disintegrate, what does Jen's wife feel?
(a) Suffocated.
(b) Calm.
(c) Joyful.
(d) Afraid.

13. Who does the widower take as a new wife after his wife is murdered in one of P'u Sung-Ling's stories?
(a) Peddler.
(b) Merchant.
(c) Slave girl.
(d) Prostitute.

14. Who was also waiting to attack the adulterous couple according to Jen?
(a) Ts'ao.
(b) Jen.
(c) Huang.
(d) Kao.

15. What is the punishment for the murderer apart from beating?
(a) Being castrated.
(b) Wearing a cangue.
(c) Being imprisoned.
(d) Cutting out his tongue.

Short Answer Questions

1. When P'u Sung-ling wrote about a woman confronting rampaging soldiers, what did she set on fire?

2. P'u Sung-ling told a story about a woman who had a relationship with a nobleman and was pregnant. What happened to her?

3. When is Jen's wife's supposed killer brought to trial?

4. What kind of a dream does Jen's wife have?

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

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