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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jen's wife's supposed killer deny doing?
(a) Killing Jen.
(b) Killing Jen's wife.
(c) Fighting with Jen's wife.
(d) Fighting with Jen.

2. What subject is some of the widows knowledgeable about?
(a) Philosophy.
(b) Science.
(c) Religion.
(d) Law.

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

4. Who took over China in 1644?
(a) Ling Dynasty.
(b) T'an-ch'eng.
(c) Ching Dynasty.
(d) Yu-yu Dynasty.

5. Who nominates a new heir for P'eng?
(a) Husband's clan.
(b) Husband's stepson.
(c) Her sister.
(d) Her family.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the young couple set up as a new occupation after Ting is freed by a large bribe?

2. What is the pile near the mat that Huang notices?

3. To whom does the goddess ask the man to write a challenge in the second magic story by P'u Sung-ling from 1668?

4. What does Ts'ui-hsien suspect about the man who wants to marry her?

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

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