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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 a county in Northeastern China, in the province of Shantung?
(a) T'ang-Ch'en.
(b) T'ang-Liu.
(c) T'ang-Canal.
(d) T'ang-Huang.

2. What subject is some of the widows knowledgeable about?
(a) Philosophy.
(b) Religion.
(c) Law.
(d) Science.

3. In "Hsi-liu," how old is the widow when she is forced to raise two sons on her own?
(a) 55.
(b) 45.
(c) 25.
(d) 35.

4. From where does a woman who is a spirit medium produce a voice in one of the stories told by P'u Sung-ling from 1668?
(a) Above the stairs.
(b) In a garden.
(c) Below a box.
(d) Behind a fan.

5. Who made up a story that the boy's father killed their father during the chaos of the Manchu invasions?
(a) Cousins.
(b) Aunts.
(c) Sisters.
(d) Uncles.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is cruelly enforced in the countryside more than the city according to the magistrate?

2. In what story does a naive man have to acquire crickets?

3. What does the official of T'ang-ch'eng get Peking officials to lower?

4. What do the young couple set up as a new occupation after Ting is freed by a large bribe?

5. Who attacks the couple and have to be stopped by magic?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does a woman's rights compare to that of her son?

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

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

4. What is the temptation that arose from the complex Chinese legal code about marriage and widows?

5. What is the pao-chia system?

6. Describe the heavy demands of the tax system in the 1640s in T'an-ch'eng.

7. What kind of loot does the Manchu army take in 1643?

8. What is the story that P'eng's husband's relatives make up in order to attack Lien?

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

10. What is the challenge that P'eng faces after her husband dies in the story of Woman P'eng?

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