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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Pleasures of Leisure.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Yun say that they can bring with them in order to be able to have tea when she and Shen Fu are on an adventure?
(a) Money to buy one.
(b) Their imagination.
(c) Earthenware pot.
(d) Nothing.

2. Shen Fu describes the fact that he was _____________ to take on the position as a secretary, which is not uncommon.
(a) Badgered.
(b) Commanded.
(c) Invited.
(d) Enticed.

3. How many records seem to be missing from the manuscript which has been compiled about Shen Fu's life?
(a) Four.
(b) Three.
(c) Two.
(d) One.

4. What does Shen Fu seem to have specialized in, according to this skills when he was a secretary for the magistrate?
(a) Judicial.
(b) Law.
(c) Bookkeeping.
(d) Document registration.

5. Shen Fu thinks that when laying out a landscape, it should be a goal to give the feeling of the small in the ______________.
(a) Large.
(b) Small.
(c) Sky.
(d) Smaller spaces.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the only player who was allowed to think about their answers and a person who was considered an official paper?

2. Who once created a sketch of Shen Fu and Yun in a garden, according to the story?

3. To show the small in the large, one can plant ____________ in a corner as it will grow tall and strong and quickly.

4. What does Shen Fu later think that the battle between the two insects probably was?

5. Shen Fu says that he defines frugality as knowing when to save _______________, according to his writings.

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