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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Ts'ui Meng adopt for a year?
(a) Young girl.
(b) Slave child.
(c) Young boy.
(d) Peddler.

2. Who ends up becoming Li's servant for a year?
(a) Huang.
(b) Ts'ui.
(c) Tao.
(d) Wang.

3. Who has to pay the burial expenses for the dead wife?
(a) Kao.
(b) Chin.
(c) Ts'uai.
(d) Jen.

4. In Jen's wife's dream, where is she sitting?
(a) A swing.
(b) A library stool.
(c) A sofa.
(d) A bench.

5. What does Jen's wife do with another man?
(a) Kills.
(b) Works.
(c) Runs away.
(d) Fights.

6. Who is the magistrate overseeing the case of the murder?
(a) Huang.
(b) Hissu.
(c) Ts'ao.
(d) Kao.

7. When is Jen's wife's supposed killer brought to trial?
(a) Two days after being accused.
(b) Five days after being accused.
(c) Four days after being accused.
(d) Three days after being accused.

8. After who dies does Ts'ui confess his murder?
(a) Mother.
(b) Brother.
(c) Father.
(d) Friend.

9. Whose nephew starts up a gang that attacks Ts'ui?
(a) Wang.
(b) Huang.
(c) Tao.
(d) Li.

10. When could a Chinese husband kill a wife according to the law?
(a) If he caught his wife having sex.
(b) If he became a concubine.
(c) If he found himself another partner.
(d) If he was angry.

11. Who was also waiting to attack the adulterous couple according to Jen?
(a) Kao.
(b) Huang.
(c) Jen.
(d) Ts'ao.

12. Who makes himself the law and uses his violent abilities to right what he sees as injustices in one of P'u Sung-ling's stories?
(a) Ts'ui Meng.
(b) P'u Sung-ling.
(c) Din Dan.
(d) Li Chen.

13. What does Ts'ui-hsien suspect about the man who wants to marry her?
(a) He is a liar.
(b) He has bad habits.
(c) He is rich.
(d) He is a beggar.

14. When Huang reconstructs the crime, who admits guilt?
(a) Hissu.
(b) Jen.
(c) Kao.
(d) Ts'ao.

15. When Jen's wife tears the sleeping mat, what does she do?
(a) Scream.
(b) Laugh.
(c) Cry.
(d) Defecate.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is arrested as being guilty of killing Jen's wife?

2. When does Huang go to Jen's house to examine evidence?

3. What is Jen doing to his wife as she is dreaming?

4. What does Jen's wife's supposed killer admit to doing?

5. Who comes to judge Ts'ui for his crime of murder?

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