Introduction
This Qing Dynasty author wrote the book, Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio
Who is Pu Songling?
This virtue is strongly emphasize in "The Painted Wall".
What is loyalty or trust?
This animal is central to the story's title and plot.
What is a python / snake?
This small animal appears as a key character.
What is a mouse?
The title character is identified primarily by this color.
What is green?
The primary historical audience for these stories was this educated class.
Who are scholars / literati?
The story involves a man interacting with figures from this type of artwork.
What is a wall painting or mural?
The story focuses on loyalty between two male men with this relationship.
What are brothers?
The story centers on devotion between two male mice with this relationship.
What is.....a Trick Question! It wasn't stated in the text.
The story involves a mysterious or supernatural this figure.
What is a young woman / maiden?
Many stories involve relationships between scholars and these supernatural beings.
What are spirits / fox-spirits / ghosts?
The central male figure becomes emotionally attaches to this figure.
Who is the woman in the painting?
Unlike other tales in this book, this story largely lacks the presence of this.
What is a woman?
The surviving mouse's eyes are compared to this.
Like many female figures in this collection, she influences the male protangonist through this type of relationship.
What is romantic involvement?
A major theme across the collection is the tension between human and this other realm.
What is the supernatural / spirit world?
The story explores whether devotion to illusion can be as powerful as this real-world bond.
What is love?
(....baby don't hurt me....)
One character risks himself to help the injured other, showing this virtue.
What is loyalty or devotion.
The animal characters display this "human" quality.
What is loyalty or devotion?
Her portrayal fits the broader pattern of powerful supernatural this across the book.
What are women / female spirits?
The book is a collection of many short tales rather than one continuous narrative. This structure is called this.
What is an anthology?
The boundary crossed in this story is between reality and this depicted world.
What is art / illusion?
One brother lost his ____ and _____. What did you think of this part of the story?
....symbolism anyone?
What is the connection between this story and The Wounded Python?
Up to interpretation
The tale contains an allusion to this famous Chinese novel
What is Golden Lotus?