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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. In what story does a naive man have to acquire crickets?
(a) The Fighting Cricket.
(b) The Game Cricket.
(c) The Chinese Cricket.
(d) The Cricket Tax.

2. What does the widow force the lazy person to do in one of P'u Sung-Ling's stories about widows?
(a) Work in the fields.
(b) Herd pigs.
(c) Count sheep.
(d) Fight men.

3. Since the widow does not have any rights at all, what do the cousins believe that by killing the boy they could get in the Woman P'eng story?
(a) Prostitutes.
(b) Land.
(c) Inheritance.
(d) House.

4. Who does not understand the law and thinks it is more convoluted that it is in fact in the Woman P'eng story?
(a) Cousin.
(b) Son.
(c) Widow.
(d) Father.

5. What are taxes used to maintain in Huang's story?
(a) Imperial roads.
(b) Manchu roads.
(c) Kaoling roads.
(d) Chin-Chon roads.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why is Ting arrested?

3. Who plans on benefiting from the death of the young boy in the story of P'eng?

4. Who does Liu meet with the police who is threatened by starvation?

5. Who does the widow beat because he is lazy in one of P'u Sung-Ling's stories about widows?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Describe Huang Liu-hung's work as an official for the county.

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

6. Describe what happens after the famine in T'ang-Ch'en in 1641.

7. How does Hsiao-erh save the the people in the village from drought and famine?

8. Describe the snowfall and its effect on the farmers in T'an-ch'eng in 1671.

9. Describe the story of the boy and the magical trick.

10. What does Huang Liu-hung find most disturbing about the people in his county?

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