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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. In Suu Kyi's speech on December 3, 1988, what are Suu Kyi's beliefs about democracy in Burma?
(a) Democracy is an illusive dream.
(b) Democracy is around the corner.
(c) Democracy can only exist in Burma in an adulterated form.
(d) Democracy is still possible.

2. According to Aung San Suu Kyi, what corrupts individuals?
(a) Money.
(b) Greed.
(c) Fear.
(d) Power.

3. Which one of the following is NOT one of the things that Suu Kyi emphasizes in her speech on December 1988?
(a) Loyalties and allegiances should not be to individuals or groups.
(b) Loyalties and allegiances should not be short-term.
(c) Everyone must work together for democracy.
(d) Everyone must maintain hope.

4. Who holds the burden of upholding justice and common decency where no rule of law prevails?
(a) The military.
(b) The police.
(c) The religious orders.
(d) The people.

5. According to Suu Kyi, What was Gandhi able to accomplish that Burma was unable to do?
(a) To hold rallies.
(b) To organize demonstrations.
(c) To synthesize thought and action.
(d) To take a spiritual approach to ousting the British.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was the Burmese populace largely literate?

2. The passage written in 1908 negatively compares the Burmese to the following nationalities EXCEPT?

3. What human rights violation does Suu Kyi cite in her second letter to Amnesty International?

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

5. According to Suu Kyi, what brought the crowd together at the Shwedagon Pagoda in Rangoon on 26 August 1988?

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