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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the magistrate notice that people do in order to cheat on taxes?
(a) Lower land quality.
(b) Rebel.
(c) Falsify records.
(d) Steal property.

2. What does a rich bandit give the couple?
(a) 1,000 taels.
(b) 2,000 taels.
(c) 3,000 taels.
(d) 4,000 taels.

3. 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?
(a) Huang.
(b) Ch'ang-hu.
(c) Hsi-liu.
(d) Ch'ang-fu.

4. Who made up a story that the boy's father killed their father during the chaos of the Manchu invasions?
(a) Aunts.
(b) Sisters.
(c) Cousins.
(d) Uncles.

5. In what story does a naive man have to acquire crickets?
(a) The Fighting Cricket.
(b) The Chinese Cricket.
(c) The Cricket Tax.
(d) The Game Cricket.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is complicated and difficult to follow in Chinese society regarding inheritance?

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

4. How many males does T'an-ch'eng have to provide for forced labor at one time?

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

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