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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is another name for forced labor in Huang's story?
(a) Lee-huang.
(b) Corvee.
(c) Yu-yu.
(d) Lin-yu.

2. What do the couple pose as from the fighting around them?
(a) Tribal people.
(b) Refugees.
(c) Bandits.
(d) Warriors.

3. What is cruelly enforced in the countryside more than the city according to the magistrate?
(a) Magic.
(b) Tax.
(c) Prisons.
(d) Laws.

4. Who does the couple ransom after the war is over?
(a) Their nephew.
(b) Their niece.
(c) Their daughter.
(d) Their son.

5. As power changed hands in China in 1644, what did not decline?
(a) Taxes.
(b) Corvee.
(c) Productivity.
(d) Population.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Ting arrested?

2. P'u Sung-ling tells stories about scholars and ladies and ________________.

3. Who is educated to read and write by her scholar father and then struggles to raise two boys in one of P'u Sung-Ling's stories about widows?

4. Who made up a story that the boy's father killed their father during the chaos of the Manchu invasions?

5. Who is drinking with a cousin during the earthquake of 1668?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Hsi-liu and her struggle with Ch'ang fu.

2. What is the story about the old widow and her fantasy that P'u Sung-ling shares?

3. Describe Hsiao-erh and Ting's relationship.

4. What is the story of The Fighting Cricket?

5. What did Huang Liu-hung say about the peasant misery in the famine?

6. Describe corvee in T'an-ch'eng in the 1640s.

7. What is the pao-chia system?

8. How does Lien's killer misunderstand the Chinese law?

9. What do many widows do to raise their children?

10. What is the pressure put on widows regarding marriage?

(see the answer keys)

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