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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 northern group attacks from the north and loots the city prior to taking over China?
(a) Matou.
(b) Huang.
(c) Tang.
(d) Manchu.

2. Who does Liu meet with the police who is threatened by starvation?
(a) A married couple.
(b) His magistrate.
(c) His spirit medium.
(d) His fox spirit.

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

4. Who is an official who passed his scholarly chu-jen examination?
(a) T'ang-ch'eng.
(b) Ma-t'ou.
(c) Feng K'o-t'san.
(d) Huang Liu-hung.

5. To what spirit is a shrine made in T'ang-ch'eng to protect from evil spirits in the 17th century?
(a) Tseng-yu.
(b) T'an-ch'eng.
(c) Yu-yu.
(d) P'u Sung-ling.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are taxes used to maintain in Huang's story?

2. What are people forced to do even if they are naked during an earthquake?

3. What do the couple pose as from the fighting around them?

4. What is a county in Northeastern China, in the province of Shantung?

5. What do the officials want to receive in the first magic story by P'u Sung-ling from 1668?

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