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Quiz about Ten Couples in  Water Margin
Quiz about Ten Couples in  Water Margin

Ten Couples in " Water Margin" Quiz


The book "Water Margin" deals with the relationship between men and women. I pick out ten couples, married or unmarried, from the book and let's see what happened to them.

A multiple-choice quiz by patrick8882. Estimated time: 4 mins.
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Author
patrick8882
Time
4 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
348,900
Updated
Oct 03 24
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Average
Avg Score
6 / 10
Plays
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Question 1 of 10
1. Why did Lin Chong divorce his wife? Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. How did Song Jiang help Mistress Yan and her daughter? Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. How did Pan Jinlian and Ximen Qing meet first time? Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. What did Zhang Qing (nickname the Vegetable Gardener) and Sun Erniang (nickname the Witch) do for a living? Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. Who killed Yu Lan, whom General Zhang introduced to Wu Song as a fiancee? Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. Why did Yang Xiong (nickname the Pallid) kill Pan Qiaoyun, his wife? Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. Who did Hu Sanniang marry finally? Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. How did Sun Xin (nickname the Junior General) and Mistress Gu (nickname the Tigeress) save the Xie brothers?
Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. Why did Lu Junyi kill his wife? Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. Why did Yan Qing access Li Shishi in the first place? Hint



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. Why did Lin Chong divorce his wife?

Answer: because he would be exiled and didn't want to tie her down

Lin and his wife were the best couple in the book. "Not once have they quarrelled or even grown red in the face." Lin's wife was harassed by Young Master Gao a few times but Lin dared not fight back. Then Lin was framed by Marshal Gao, and tattooed and exiled to Cangzhou. So in spite of his father-in-law's opposition, Lin wrote an annulment in order that he wouldn't delay her happiness.
2. How did Song Jiang help Mistress Yan and her daughter?

Answer: he helped them bury Old Yan

In order to thank Song for his help, Mistress Yan gave her daughter, Yan Poxi, to him as an unwed concubine. In exchange Song provided them with daily allowances. But he was a so-called "away-from-women" hero, so Yan Poxi was dissatisfied with him. Finally she had an affair with Zhang Wenyuan, Song's assistant.
3. How did Pan Jinlian and Ximen Qing meet first time?

Answer: Pan dropped the rod to support the awning and it hit Ximen accidentally

Ximen was fond of women and "loved" Pan at first sight. But for the sex appeal, or more exactly, the undisguised lust between them, their first meeting would be a romantic scene.

Ximen begged Mistress Wang to arrange the affair between him and Pan. In the end the affair was found out by Wu Zhi, Pan's husband and a travelling merchant. So Pan killed him by poisoning with the help of Mistress Wang and Ximen.
4. What did Zhang Qing (nickname the Vegetable Gardener) and Sun Erniang (nickname the Witch) do for a living?

Answer: at Crossroad Rise they killed travellers after drugging them and robbed them of their belongings

What is most horrible is that they stuffed buns with flesh of the people they killed. But they were beaten by Wu Song when they tried to drug him. Afterwards they helped Wu escape the official punishment by disguising him as a pilgrim.
5. Who killed Yu Lan, whom General Zhang introduced to Wu Song as a fiancee?

Answer: Wu Song

General Zhang framed Wu Song and Wu took revenge on Yu Lan, Zhang's adopted daughter, as an accomplice. But I feel Yu Lan was innocent. She was involved in the incident not out of her intention.
6. Why did Yang Xiong (nickname the Pallid) kill Pan Qiaoyun, his wife?

Answer: because she had an affair with a monk

Pan Qiaoyun's affair with a monk was found out by Shi Xiu, but Pan claimed falsely that Shi had wanted to flirt with her. Yang Xiong believed her and expelled Shi. In the end Shi enlightened Yang about the affair, and both Pan and her maid were killed.
7. Who did Hu Sanniang marry finally?

Answer: Wang Ying

What a mismatch! Hu was beautiful and talented while Wang was ugly and useless. In China there is a saying: "A beautiful flower is planted on cow dung", which describes precisely the situation with this couple.
8. How did Sun Xin (nickname the Junior General) and Mistress Gu (nickname the Tigeress) save the Xie brothers?

Answer: they broke into the prison and rescued the brothers

What is interesting is that among the three couples in the Liangshan marsh (Zhang Qing and Sun Erniang, Wang Ying and Hu Sanniang, Sun Xin and Mistress Gu) the wife is always stronger than the husband. Strictly speaking, these wives are not women; they are just the men taking the form of women.
9. Why did Lu Junyi kill his wife?

Answer: because she betrayed him and married Li Gu, his housekeeper

Though the woman said many sweet words before her death, Lu Junyi still killed her. She was just another lustful woman, as described by the author.
10. Why did Yan Qing access Li Shishi in the first place?

Answer: because he wanted to meet the emperor through her

What happened between Yan Qing and Li Shishi is one of the few beautiful stories in the book. Though their story, like the other love stories in the book, involved a little lust, I still like to think of what happened between them as a true love.
Source: Author patrick8882

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