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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 snowfall fail to lessen in Huang's story?
2. What system is used to maintain public order, police functions, and militia defense to deal with attacks by bandits in Huang's story?
3. Who attacks the couple and have to be stopped by magic?
4. How far away do workers have to go for forced labor in Huang's story?
5. Who is educated to read and write by her scholar father and then struggles to raise two boys in one of P'u Sung-Ling's stories about widows?
Short Essay Questions
1. What happened in the story of the man falling asleep and dreaming?
2. Describe Hsi-liu and her struggle with Ch'ang hu.
3. What is the story about the old widow and her fantasy that P'u Sung-ling shares?
4. What do many widows do to raise their children?
5. Describe the heavy demands of the tax system in the 1640s in T'an-ch'eng.
6. How does Hsiao-erh save the the people in the village from drought and famine?
7. What does Huang Liu-hung find most disturbing about the people in his county?
8. What is the story of The Fighting Cricket?
9. How does a woman's rights compare to that of her son?
10. What is the pao-chia system?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Taoism strongly emphasizes the relationship of people to the environment in harmony. How does this belief system contrast with the violence depicted in the book? Can such actions such as Ts'ui and Li's in response to injustice be reconciled with Taoism? Why or why not?
Essay Topic 2
Describe the Woman Wang. What was her role in the book? How does she relate to Jen? What was Spence trying to accomplish by describing the Woman Wang in the book?
Essay Topic 3
What is the significance of the book's title, The Death of Woman Wang? Why did Spence choose this as the title? Do you think this choice is appropriate? Why or why not?
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