The Chinese civil service examination system
a. included a quota system to insure that over one-half of those who took it were peasants.
b. ensured that those passing all levels of the exams would receive life-long pensions.
c. was designed to keep the "scholar-gentry" from taking the advanced examinations.
d. was no longer used after the early 600s.
e. was unable to solve the problem of officials using their positions to help their relatives.
e
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