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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What or whom do the people have fear of after the murder case?
2. Who forms a band of villagers for mutual defense against the robbers?
3. When Jen fights with the neighbor, where does his wife go?
4. Who does Jen's wife see with a tumor sticking out of him?
5. Who does the widower take as a new wife after his wife is murdered in one of P'u Sung-Ling's stories?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Jen place the blame of Wang's death on Kao?
2. What is Chinese law regarding adultery?
3. What is the story that P'u Sung-ling writes about a woman confronting rampaging soldiers?
4. How does Ts'ui Meng react to a wife murdering her husband and his mother and what does his mother do to appease the situation?
5. How does Li protect Ts'ui Meng's wife?
6. What is the conflict between a local farmer and another Wang family?
7. How does the boy that Ts'ui Meng befriended rescue him?
8. What is the sad story P'u Sung-ling tells about a young woman and a nobleman?
9. What happened when Wang woke up from her dream?
10. Why do you think Spence named the book The Death of Woman Wang?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is the significance of the book's title, The Death of Woman Wang? Why did Spence choose this as the title? Do you think this choice is appropriate? Why or why not?
Essay Topic 2
Explain the role of women in rural China in the 1600s when the women in the stories and the main narrative are living their lives. What precedents do they feel compelled to follow? What restrictions do they have? What freedoms did they have that 21st century women do not have?
Essay Topic 3
In T'ang-Chen in the 1640s, what creates impoverished conditions for the peasants? What freedom do the peasants lack? What choices do they have? What choices do they make?
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