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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Woman Who Ran Away.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the young couple set up as a new occupation after Ting is freed by a large bribe?
(a) Tax accountancy firm.
(b) Herbal shop.
(c) Shoe shop.
(d) Glass factory.

2. When could a Chinese husband kill a wife according to the law?
(a) If he was angry.
(b) If he caught his wife having sex.
(c) If he found himself another partner.
(d) If he became a concubine.

3. What does Jen's wife do with another man?
(a) Works.
(b) Runs away.
(c) Kills.
(d) Fights.

4. When a husband died or even castrated himself, women often did what in China?
(a) Fought them.
(b) Committed suicide.
(c) Gave up.
(d) Remarried.

5. Under Chinese law, what is Jen supposed to do with his wife?
(a) Remarry her.
(b) Forgive her.
(c) Keep her.
(d) Throw her out.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Jen dump the body after he hears the village watchmen?

2. 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?

3. What is Jen doing to his wife as she is dreaming?

4. What does the widow force the lazy person to do in one of P'u Sung-Ling's stories about widows?

5. According to what custom does a woman return dowry to her husband's family?

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