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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: Section 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Aung San's objective after he resigned as military chief?
(a) To unite Burma's ethnic groups.
(b) To stabilize the economy.
(c) To organize a grassroots resistance.
(d) To release political prisoners.

2. Who formed a new government after Aung San was assassinated?
(a) U Nu.
(b) San Yu.
(c) Maung Aye.
(d) Aung San Suu Kyi.

3. What other organizations has Suu Kyi made appeals about the violation of human rights in Burma?
(a) Commonweath of Nations and No Peace Without Justice.
(b) Human Rights Watch and Genocide Watch.
(c) Amnesty International and the National Commission of Jurists.
(d) Internation Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance and the Lautaro Lodge.

4. What was a common theme in Burmese literature near the end of the British rule?
(a) Socialist realism.
(b) The struggle for independence.
(c) The Victorian way of life.
(d) Egalitarianism.

5. How did British colonization occur in Burma?
(a) In three clear-cut phases.
(b) Gradually over 200 years.
(c) Abruptly, in a few months.
(d) After a five-year war.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of Aung San's relatives led one of the first groups resist the British occupation?

2. What political party swept the elections in Burma in 1947?

3. How did Suu Kyi conclude her letter to the editor dated January 21,1989?

4. In Suu Kyi's open letter dated September 26, 1988, what occasion does she want people to act upon her request ?

5. In Suu Kyi's undated letter to the United Nations, she states that "those who embrace the cause of human rights...

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