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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Introduction and Part I: Joys of the Wedding Chamber.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The secretaries in _________, almost by definition at the time of the book, were failures in their lives, according to the Introduction.
(a) Shanghai.
(b) Beijing.
(c) Soochow.
(d) Yamen.

2. What is not one of the categories of specialists into which the private secretaries might be divided, according to the book?
(a) Tax collection.
(b) Registration of documents.
(c) Bookkeeping.
(d) Judicial.

3. Yun believes that having been to the festival, she has not lived a life in ____________, since she has seen such a beautiful pplace.
(a) Terror.
(b) Vain.
(c) Illness.
(d) Pain.

4. The different categories in the book, according to Shen Fu, all add up to a __________ life in this book.
(a) Jumbled.
(b) Floating.
(c) Boring.
(d) Chaotic.

5. The Lighting of the ___________ is something that Yun wants to attend so badly that she convinces her husband to let her go, dressed as a man.
(a) Dragons.
(b) Truth.
(c) Flowers.
(d) Fire.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who prepared almost every single document that the magistrate would see during their daily work?

2. Who was the first translator of the book in 1935, according to the introduction of the book?

3. The Chinese believed their leaders should be _____________ first and bureaucrats second, according to the Introduction.

4. What does Shen Fu seem to have specialized in, according to this skills when he was a secretary for the magistrate?

5. What was the highest position to which Shen Fu rose in the story, a lower position, though Shen Fu was content in it?

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