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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who narrates the story regarding the arrest of Jen's wife's supposed killer?
(a) Kao.
(b) Jen.
(c) Huang.
(d) Ts'ao.

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

4. When P'u Sung-ling wrote about a woman confronting rampaging soldiers, what did she set on fire?
(a) Their clothes.
(b) Her shoes.
(c) Her house.
(d) Bedding.

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

6. What is not fully enforced during the trial?
(a) Full severity of the law.
(b) Innocent arrests.
(c) Respectful judgment.
(d) Full practical application.

7. In Jen's wife's dream, where is she sitting?
(a) A bench.
(b) A library stool.
(c) A swing.
(d) A sofa.

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

9. Who does Ts'ui and his mother meet when traveling who is being restrained and beaten?
(a) Wang.
(b) Ban.
(c) Chin.
(d) Li.

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

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

12. What happens to Ts'ui-hsien's husband when he enters his wife's mother's home?
(a) He is justified in killing his wife.
(b) He hurts himself.
(c) He is in the lap of luxury.
(d) He falls down a cliff.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is talking to the men on the night watch during the night of the murder?

2. How old is P'u Sung-ling when his father contracts a marriage for him?

3. In order to keep the family peace, what does P'u Sung-ling's father have to do?

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

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

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