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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Delights of Roaming Afar.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Shen Fu bite into, even as the others told him not to do so?
(a) Persimmons.
(b) Apples.
(c) Plums.
(d) Cherries.

2. What should a person use to strengthen a plant when the stem begins to fall over, according to Shen Fu's instructions?
(a) Tape.
(b) Stones.
(c) Pins.
(d) Water.

3. Who does Yun say is timid and without much ability, which is why this person should be arranged in marriage now?
(a) Chung.
(b) Wang.
(c) Ling.
(d) Chiug.

4. What did Shen Fu try to sell when his wife was ill and they needed to buy her medicine, though this venture was unsuccessful?
(a) Books.
(b) Plants.
(c) Photos.
(d) Paintings.

5. Shen Fu decided to restore a peasant girl to her family when a man of influence wants to make her a _________.
(a) Sister.
(b) Slave.
(c) Concubine.
(d) Second wife.

Short Answer Questions

1. The boatman suggests that the boys go to the village of _________ where his cousin lives, saying it has vacant land.

2. Shen Fu admits there are usually retributions for one's own _______,but he does not see this to be the case with himself.

3. A monk at the cave invites Shen Fu to see that Ten Thousand Year _____, in the kitchen of a temple.

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

5. What did Shen Fu's malaria eventually turn into because he did not take good care of himself, according to Shen Fu?

(see the answer key)

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