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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, The Land.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is cruelly enforced in the countryside more than the city according to the magistrate?
(a) Tax.
(b) Laws.
(c) Magic.
(d) Prisons.

2. What do the couple pose as from the fighting around them?
(a) Refugees.
(b) Warriors.
(c) Bandits.
(d) Tribal people.

3. What does the snowfall fail to lessen in Huang's story?
(a) Tax burden.
(b) Air conditioning bill.
(c) Drought.
(d) Electric bill.

4. How does a woman make medical prescriptions in one of the stories told by P'u Sung-ling from 1668?
(a) With a magistrate.
(b) With a fox spirit.
(c) With magical spirits.
(d) With drugs.

5. What skill does the woman who makes medical prescriptions have in one of the stories told by P'u Sung-ling from 1668?
(a) Singer.
(b) Violinist.
(c) Ventriloquist.
(d) Dancer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What system is used to maintain public order, police functions, and militia defense to deal with attacks by bandits in Huang's story?

2. What famous philosopher has ties to T'ang-ch'eng?

3. From what position is Feng fired?

4. Who does Liu meet with the police who is threatened by starvation?

5. From whom does the young girl learn magical powers in one of P'u Sung-Ling's stories?

(see the answer key)

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