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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does not allow fear to dictate behavior?
(a) Morality
(b) Ignorance.
(c) Courage.
(d) Power.
2. What group became the voice for Burmese nationalism?
(a) The university students.
(b) The labor unions.
(c) The military.
(d) The farmers.
3. According to Aung San Suu Kyi, what are the Burmese people eager to study?
(a) History.
(b) Economics.
(c) Modern politics.
(d) Philosophy.
4. Suu Kyi writes that Aung San was NOT...
(a) A political idealogue.
(b) A political stuntman.
(c) A show horse.
(d) An attention seeker.
5. For Aung San Suu Kyi, how will the forces that produce inequities be conquered?
(a) Through an international tribunal.
(b) Through non-violent resistance.
(c) Out of a spiritual revolution.
(d) By an uprising of the people.
6. When does law and order gain intrinsic value?
(a) When law is enforced.
(b) When law is equated with justice and order.
(c) When law is followed by all.
(d) When law is created by men with morals and integrity.
7. What was one of Aung San's fantasies as a child?
(a) A monster would scare the British out of Burma.
(b) He would use magic to expel the British from Burma.
(c) He could ride a magic carpet to anywhere in the world.
(d) He would become ruler of Burma.
8. What was different about the human rights violation than previous circumstances that Suu Kyi cites in her second letter to Amnesty International?
(a) That the incidences are increasing.
(b) That is involves children.
(c) That it is occuring in broad daylight.
(d) That a person inside of the regime is speaking against these practices.
9. In Suu Kyi's interview with Karan Thapar in August 29, 1988, what does she state as her vision for her role in Burma?
(a) She will lead from behind the scenes.
(b) She will hand the reigns of the leadership over to the party chairman.
(c) She wants to become a leader as great as her father.
(d) She will look for ways in which she can be most of service.
10. Why did Burma have few social problems?
(a) The Burmese people had a very strict moral code.
(b) Because the British army maintained a tight control over the people.
(c) The country had a lot of natural resources.
(d) There was no social stratification.
11. Which is worst out of the four types of corruption?
(a) Fear.
(b) Ill will.
(c) Desire.
(d) Greed.
12. What also developed along with the western influence on Burmese language and literature?
(a) Christianity.
(b) Urbanism.
(c) Socialism.
(d) Nationalism.
13. Suu Kyi states in her speech Shwedagon Pagoda in Rangoon on 26 August 1988 that she is not beholden to any politician so that...
(a) She does not play a role in the corruption and the scandals.
(b) She can act and think independently.
(c) No one can ever force Suu Kyi to betray them.
(d) No one force her hand to act in a way that violates her conscience.
14. Why was the disintegration of British rule felt more in this particular region of Burma?
(a) Because it was the center of British rule.
(b) Because the people in that region had overthrown outside rule in its past.
(c) Because it was too remote.
(d) There was a higher population density.
15. According to Suu Kyi, what brought the crowd together at the Shwedagon Pagoda in Rangoon on 26 August 1988?
(a) The "unshakable desire to strive for a multi-party democratic system"
(b) A "growing discontent among the people."
(c) A "showing of solidarity against the oppressive regime of Burma."
(d) A "desire for change."
Short Answer Questions
1. What was the Freedom Bloc?
2. When did political thinking in Burma get stalled?
3. What war brought Burma under British rule?
4. What did Party Chairman Ne Win, propose after a series of bloodshed and disturbances in 1988?
5. What was the orientation of the political writings during the end of the British rule?
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