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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is set off in the hills by a servant to divert the robbers while rescuing Ts'ui's wife in one of P'u Sung-Ling's stories?
(a) Lights.
(b) Smoke.
(c) Flame.
(d) Sounds.

2. What is the intense violence in the story of P'u Sung-ling's personal life centered around?
(a) Family.
(b) Land.
(c) Monks.
(d) Business.

3. With the lack of public order and security, what is a big problem in one of P'u Sung-Ling's stories?
(a) Death.
(b) Officers.
(c) Corruption.
(d) Bandits.

4. Who is the local farmer who steps over the adjoining Wang land boundary with his livestock?
(a) Li Tung-chen.
(b) Wang Dang.
(c) Yu Piao.
(d) Kuan Ming-yo.

5. What storage facilities are abandoned during the time of the famine?
(a) Gold.
(b) Labor.
(c) Silver.
(d) Grain.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who lacks an heir after the death of the young boy in the Woman P'eng story?

2. Who does Ts'ui Meng adopt for a year?

3. After what event in 1641 is there an attack on the city by bandits?

4. Who visits an old woman who is spinning in one of P'u Sung-Ling's stories about widows?

5. In "Hsi-liu," how old is the widow when she is forced to raise two sons on her own?

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