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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 a job that Jen's wife can do as a single woman?
(a) Priest.
(b) Nurse.
(c) Killer.
(d) Business woman.

2. What is Jen doing to his wife as she is dreaming?
(a) Talking to her.
(b) Mocking her.
(c) Dancing with her.
(d) Strangling her.

3. Who was also waiting to attack the adulterous couple according to Jen?
(a) Kao.
(b) Huang.
(c) Jen.
(d) Ts'ao.

4. Who met a young woman named Ts'ui-hsien at a religious ceremony?
(a) Ts'ui-hsien.
(b) Manchu.
(c) P'u Sung-ling.
(d) Ts'ai.

5. Who attacks Li and his sons in revenge for being called a gangster?
(a) Yu Piao.
(b) Li Tung-chen.
(c) Kuan Ming-yo.
(d) Wang K'o-hsi.

Short Answer Questions

1. After who dies does Ts'ui confess his murder?

2. How does the man who came to judge Ts'ui for his crime know him?

3. Who does the widower take as a new wife after his wife is murdered in one of P'u Sung-Ling's stories?

4. What does Jen's wife's supposed killer admit to doing?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is done to placate Wang's ghost and why?

2. How does Kao get involved in Jen and Wang's marital dspute at the temple?

3. Why is Jen able to survive the beating?

4. How does Ts'ui Meng react to a wife murdering her husband and his mother and what does his mother do to appease the situation?

5. How does the boy that Ts'ui Meng befriended rescue him?

6. What is Chinese law regarding adultery?

7. How is Jen's punishment lessened and what does it say about the Chinese system?

8. How does Ts'ui-hsien outwit her husband through magic?

9. What does he monk urge Ts'ui Meng to do for his own safety?

10. Why is keeping order difficult in T'an-ch'eng County?

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