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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 decreases the sentence against the killer of Jen's wife?
(a) Her money.
(b) Her adultery.
(c) His good luck.
(d) His good looks.

2. To placate the ghost, where is Jen's wife buried?
(a) Over the mountain.
(b) Near the temple.
(c) Near the house.
(d) Under the cellar.

3. How old is P'u Sung-ling when his father contracts a marriage for him?
(a) 25.
(b) 20.
(c) 30.
(d) 10.

4. What is the intense violence in the story of P'u Sung-ling's personal life centered around?
(a) Business.
(b) Family.
(c) Monks.
(d) Land.

5. When Jen fights with the neighbor, where does his wife go?
(a) Back to the temple.
(b) Back to the lake.
(c) Back to the shelter.
(d) Back to her husband.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Jen's neighbor who sees Jen's wife when she is hiding?

2. Who is the magistrate who carefully plots a strategy to kill or capture the Wang gangsters?

3. Where does Jen dump the body after he hears the village watchmen?

4. Who met a young woman named Ts'ui-hsien at a religious ceremony?

5. Why does someone else have to pay burial expenses for Jen's wife?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the sad story P'u Sung-ling tells about a young woman and a nobleman?

2. What does Huang realize about Wang's death from her body?

3. How does Ts'ui Meng try to avenge injustices meted out to Li?

4. What is the conflict between a local farmer and another Wang family?

5. What is the story that P'u Sung-ling writes about a woman confronting rampaging soldiers?

6. How does Li protect Ts'ui Meng's wife?

7. What do many women do after their husbands die in China?

8. Describe Wang's surreal dream.

9. What does Li do to avenge the death of Wang's wife?

10. What happened when Wang woke up from her dream?

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