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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. For Aung San Suu Kyi, how will the forces that produce inequities be conquered?
(a) By an uprising of the people.
(b) Out of a spiritual revolution.
(c) Through an international tribunal.
(d) Through non-violent resistance.

2. What was the Burmese approach to life during British occupation?
(a) The Burmese continued their village way of life.
(b) The Burmese developed a feudal system.
(c) The Burmese developed a network of large towns.
(d) The Burmese wanted to industrialize and urbanize.

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

4. What comparison does Suu Kyi make to the ongoing national crisis in 1988?
(a) The democratic movement in China.
(b) The fallling of The Iron Curtain.
(c) The peasant revolts that have occurred throughout history.
(d) The second struggle for national independence.

5. According to Suu Kyi, what brought the crowd together at the Shwedagon Pagoda in Rangoon on 26 August 1988?
(a) A "growing discontent among the people."
(b) A "showing of solidarity against the oppressive regime of Burma."
(c) A "desire for change."
(d) The "unshakable desire to strive for a multi-party democratic system"

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Suu Kyi, in her speech on December 3, 1988, what is the life expectancy of someone in a dictatorship?

2. Which one of the following is NOT one of the things that Suu Kyi emphasizes in her speech on December 1988?

3. What solution does Suu Kyi propose to Amnesty International in her first letter addressed to them?

4. What is NOT one of the four types of corruption identified by Aung San Suu Kyi?

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

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