The Chinese High Stakes Quiz

Exam to be in the civil service in imperial china was even more gruelling than this game show. You would take bedding, a chamber pot, ink and brushes and spend three days and two nights in an exam centr. The walls were so high that apparently nothing could get in, so that there was no possibility of cheating. And if you died, you were just bundled up in a sack and tossed over the vent tust over the wall. But adler, at school, there was always a rumour, wasn't there, in your g c s s or whatever, that if some one died in your year, then everyone would get do you remember that? No