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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) Lin-yu.
(b) Lee-huang.
(c) Corvee.
(d) Yu-yu.

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

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

4. What is NOT part of the loot when the city is ransacked?
(a) People.
(b) Silver.
(c) Guns.
(d) Gold.

5. Who, when captured and thrown in fire, claims to be part of a rebel household?
(a) Spirit medium.
(b) Magical spirit.
(c) Magistrate.
(d) Fox spirit.

Short Answer Questions

1. How far away do workers have to go for forced labor in Huang's story?

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

3. Who is just a stand-in for the rights of a son in the story of P'eng?

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

5. Who visits an old woman who is spinning in one of P'u Sung-Ling's stories about widows?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What happens after the Manchus take power in T'an-ch'eng in 1644?

7. What is the story of The Fighting Cricket?

8. What is the pao-chia system?

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

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

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