清初文学家侯方域入清参加顺治八年乡试问题，成为评价其气节人格的一个焦点。

Hou Fangyu, a man of letters a the beginning of Qing Dynasty, took the imperial examination eight years after Shunzhi was enthroned, which became the point at issue of evaluating his integrity.

本文对清代乡试中的舞弊现象、防弊对策、防弊对策失效的原因进行了较为具体的探研。

This article concretely inquires into cheating phenomena, gain and loss of the countermeasures to avoid cheating and the reasons why the countermeasures ceased to be effective.

乡试是中国科举史上各级考试中最迟出现的一级考试，也是竞争最为激烈的一级考试，而且还是最早退出历史舞台的一级考试。

Provincial examination, the most competitive of all levels of examinations, appeared latest but disappeared earliest in the history of China's imperial examination.