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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does the widow with the two sons run well in one of P'u Sung-Ling's stories about widows?
2. From where does a woman who is a spirit medium produce a voice in one of the stories told by P'u Sung-ling from 1668?
3. What act does the official consider morally evil and degrading that many people in China are doing?
4. What skill does the woman who makes medical prescriptions have in one of the stories told by P'u Sung-ling from 1668?
5. Who by law stands to gain the inheritance lawfully in the Woman P'eng story?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe Hsi-liu and her struggle with Ch'ang hu.
2. Describe the snowfall and its effect on the farmers in T'an-ch'eng in 1671.
3. What is the challenge that P'eng faces after her husband dies in the story of Woman P'eng?
4. Describe the earthquake in T'ang-Ch'en in 1668.
5. What is the pao-chia system?
6. Describe Huang Liu-hung's work as an official for the county.
7. What is the story about the old widow and her fantasy that P'u Sung-ling shares?
8. Describe Hsi-liu and her struggle with Ch'ang fu.
9. Describe corvee in T'an-ch'eng in the 1640s.
10. What is the pressure put on widows regarding marriage?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The four rhetorical modes of writing are exposition, argumentation, description, and narration. Which mode or modes are used in this book and how? List at least one example of each mode you find in the book. Explain what reason Spence might have had for using it.
Essay Topic 2
In T'ang-Chen in the 1640s, what creates impoverished conditions for the peasants? What freedom do the peasants lack? What choices do they have? What choices do they make?
Essay Topic 3
The author uses more than one iteration on the theme of loss. Identify at least two themes about loss in the book. Cite an example to support your answer.
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