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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: Section 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What solution does Suu Kyi propose to Amnesty International in her first letter addressed to them?
(a) To visit Burma to bear witness to the human rights violations that are occurring.
(b) To have world ministers voice their concerns about Burma.
(c) To have a massive world-wide letter writing campaign to highlight the human rights violation in Burma.
(d) To have the United Nations Security Council intervene.

2. What human rights violation does Suu Kyi cite in her second letter to Amnesty International?
(a) Citizens being internally displaced.
(b) The involuntary conscription of young men.
(c) Putting young children to work in factories.
(d) The imprisonment of those who speak against the government.

3. What was the purpose of the rally at the Shwedagon Pagoda in Rangoon on 26 August 1988?
(a) To communicate with Suu Kyi's supporters.
(b) To galvanize the people for the commencement of a battle for a democratic government.
(c) To demonstrate that citizens should be able to peacefully assemble.
(d) To draw world attention to the collective will of the Burmese people.

4. In terms of outsiders, who represented a bigger change than the British?
(a) The Indians and Chinese.
(b) The Americans and the Canadians.
(c) The Portuguese and the Dutch.
(d) The Japanese and the Koreans.

5. Where did the nationalism movement in Burma get its roots?
(a) In the villages.
(b) By expatriates in Bangkok
(c) At the university.
(d) In Rangoon.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Burma have few social problems?

2. According to Suu Kyi in her speech on December 3, 1988, for what do the people of Burma have a responsibility?

3. What was different about the human rights violation than previous circumstances that Suu Kyi cites in her second letter to Amnesty International?

4. How does Suu Kyi conclude her first letter to Amnesty International?

5. According to Suu Kyi, What was Gandhi able to accomplish that Burma was unable to do?

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