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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. When the lazy person returns and begs the widow, what role does he assume again?
(a) Prostitute.
(b) Teacher.
(c) Student.
(d) Peddler.

2. From what position is Feng fired?
(a) Magistrate.
(b) Public officer.
(c) Taoist mystic.
(d) Marshall.

3. According to what custom does a woman return dowry to her husband's family?
(a) Chinese legal code.
(b) Ch'ang-hu inheritance.
(c) Hsi-liu notary.
(d) P'eng policy.

4. Who is the writer that says this earthquake is one of the natural disasters of the time?
(a) T'ang-Liu.
(b) Feng K'o-t'san.
(c) Huang Liu-hung.
(d) T'ang-Ch'en.

5. In "The Local History of T'an-ch'eng," who do widows struggle to raise?
(a) Daughters.
(b) Husbands.
(c) Sons.
(d) Prostitutes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What act does the official consider morally evil and degrading that many people in China are doing?

2. What subject is some of the widows knowledgeable about?

3. Who does the young boy see leading government officials in the first magic story by P'u Sung-ling from 1668?

4. To whom does the goddess ask the man to write a challenge in the second magic story by P'u Sung-ling from 1668?

5. What does the killer of the boy expect as he claims the murder was revenge in the Woman P'eng story?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What magic does Hsiao-erh practice to escape with Ting and to survive the bandits?

10. What is the story of The Fighting Cricket?

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