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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 is Jen's wife's supposed killer brought to trial?
(a) Five days after being accused.
(b) Four days after being accused.
(c) Two days after being accused.
(d) Three days after being accused.

2. What is Jen's wife buried in?
(a) Good coffin.
(b) Mountain grave.
(c) Temple.
(d) Underground cellar.

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

4. When Huang reconstructs the crime, who admits guilt?
(a) Ts'ao.
(b) Jen.
(c) Hissu.
(d) Kao.

5. Why does someone else have to pay burial expenses for Jen's wife?
(a) For hitting Kao.
(b) For hitting Wang.
(c) For hitting Ts'uai.
(d) For hitting Jen.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the pile near the mat that Huang notices?

2. After the death of his wife, where does Jen and his father walk?

3. Who kills the murderer that was protected by correct officials?

4. What does Ts'ui-hsien's husband try to do to her?

5. What do P'u Sung-ling and his wife receive from his father to start their new life?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Kao defend himself at the trial for the murder of Wang?

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

4. Why is Wang in a desperate situation after her lover leaves her?

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

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

7. Why is Jen able to survive the beating?

8. Describe Wang's surreal dream.

9. 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?

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

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