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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 the naive and uneducated head man of the village driven to while trying to pay tax?
(a) Suicide.
(b) Town.
(c) Tears.
(d) Frustration.

2. In the story of Woman P'eng, what is the name of the young son?
(a) Ch'ang.
(b) Lien.
(c) Ho-to.
(d) Pin-po.

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

4. What does the official of T'ang-ch'eng get Peking officials to lower?
(a) Levees.
(b) Tax rates.
(c) Cost of gold.
(d) Corvee.

5. In Huang's "Local History," who are pressed to remarry?
(a) Prostitutes.
(b) Peddlers.
(c) Thieves.
(d) Widows.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who writes the misery of the peasants during the ransacking?

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

3. What does the magistrate notice that people do in order to cheat on taxes?

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

5. Who does not understand the law and thinks it is more convoluted that it is in fact in the Woman P'eng story?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe Huang's relationship with local landlords and unpaid taxes.

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

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

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

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

7. What is the funny story involving a fox and a rebellion that P'u Sung-ling tells?

8. How is Feng K'o-t'san described in Chapter 1, the Observers?

9. What is the pao-chia system?

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

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