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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Ts'ui-hsien suspect about the man who wants to marry her?
(a) He has bad habits.
(b) He is a liar.
(c) He is a beggar.
(d) He is rich.

4. What is the intense violence in the story of P'u Sung-ling's personal life centered around?
(a) Family.
(b) Monks.
(c) Business.
(d) Land.

5. After who dies does Ts'ui confess his murder?
(a) Mother.
(b) Friend.
(c) Brother.
(d) Father.

6. When Jen's wife is abandoned, what situation does she find herself in?
(a) Lonely.
(b) Desperate.
(c) Happy.
(d) Rich.

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

8. What do P'u Sung-ling and his wife receive from his father to start their new life?
(a) Land, cottage, and grain.
(b) Land, clothes, and money.
(c) Cottage, food, and gin.
(d) Tools, shed, and machines.

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

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

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

12. To placate the ghost, where is Jen's wife buried?
(a) Near the temple.
(b) Under the cellar.
(c) Over the mountain.
(d) Near the house.

13. Who has to pay the burial expenses for the dead wife?
(a) Kao.
(b) Jen.
(c) Ts'uai.
(d) Chin.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is locked up after the alibi is proven about the supposed murderer?

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?

3. Who does the widower take as a new wife after his wife is murdered in one of P'u Sung-Ling's stories?

4. How far away is T'an-ch'eng from Jen's house?

5. Who is the magistrate overseeing the case of the murder?

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