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

2. How far away do workers have to go for forced labor in Huang's story?
(a) 100 miles.
(b) 2000 miles.
(c) 400 miles.
(d) 25 miles.

3. Huang tells a story about a heavy snowfall in what year?
(a) 1234.
(b) 1671.
(c) 1456.
(d) 1789.

4. From where does a woman who is a spirit medium produce a voice in one of the stories told by P'u Sung-ling from 1668?
(a) In a garden.
(b) Below a box.
(c) Behind a fan.
(d) Above the stairs.

5. What does the killer of the boy expect as he claims the murder was revenge in the Woman P'eng story?
(a) Rewards.
(b) Leniency.
(c) Inheritance.
(d) Acceptance.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the intense violence in the story of P'u Sung-ling's personal life centered around?

2. What is the town that is looted by bandits?

3. What is another name for forced labor in Huang's story?

4. From what position is Feng fired?

5. Who is the magistrate who carefully plots a strategy to kill or capture the Wang gangsters?

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