Quiz 02

This quiz covers material from the Week 03 and Week 04 Modules, specifically:

Class 04

• Lecture 3A Yuan Drama: Authors and Works; The Western Wing
• Lecture 3B Yuan Drama: Texts and Transmission
• I&H Chapter 5, “The Way and the Government: Truth and Literature"
• Yuan Zhen, “Ying-ying’s Story”
• Wang Shifu, The Story of the Western Wing, Part IV

Class 05

• Lecture 04: The Plain Tale
• I&H Chapter 16, “Prose: Guwen, Biji, Chuanqi, Pinghua”
• “How the Monk Tripitaka Brought Back the Sutras”
• Wu Cheng’en, The Journey to the West (excerpt)

Class 06

• Lecture 05: The Ming Linked-Chapter Novel
• I&H, “Chinese Political History, 1450-1915”
• I&H Chapter 20, “The Novel (1450-1650)”
• Shi Nai’an, The Water Margin [The Marshes of Mount Liang] (excerpt)
• Jin Shengtan, The Fifth Book of Genius: The Water Margin (excerpt)

The following material from Modules 01 and 02 is also included:

• I&H Chapter 4, "The Central Tradition in Traditional Society" (33-46)