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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. According to the letter, "The Formation of a People's Committee," what is not capable of reflecting the will of the people?
(a) A policy based on fear.
(b) A system that has decayed.
(c) The existing one-party system.
(d) A government that exerts its own will.

3. According to his daughter, what would have been abhorrent to Aung San?
(a) Deceit and political guile.
(b) Greed and ill will.
(c) Ignorance and disinterest.
(d) Violence and immoral acts.

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

5. In "Belief in Burma's Future," what has sprung up throughout the country because the police can no longer guarantee security in 1988?
(a) Anarchy.
(b) Local vigilante groups.
(c) Riots.
(d) Political rallies.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the Burmese peoples' general attitude toward the British?

2. In Suu Kyi's interview with Karan Thapar in August 29, 1988, what does Suu Kyi reiterate about what her father said about the army?

3. In "Belief in Burma's Future," what is Suu Kyi's conviction about the people's movement that has arisen during 1988?

4. What can authorities in Burma do without due process?

5. What does not allow fear to dictate behavior?

Short Essay Questions

1. At the time of Suu Kyi's interview with Karan Thapar on August 29, 1988, what was the state of the Burmese government?

2. According to Suu Kyi, what happened to political thought in Burma during the early twentieth century?

3. What is the the quintessential difference between the rule of law in a democracy and under totalitarian rule?

4. According to Aung San Suu Kyi, when does the Western influence on Burmese language and literature become evident?

5. How did the British attempt to pacify the Burmese after they obtained rule of the country?

6. What was the Burmese people's attitude toward the Japanese?

7. In Suu Kyi's second letter to Amnesty International, name one example she gives of human rights violations in Burma.

8. Where was the disintegrating effect of British rule first felt in Burma?

9. What is the purpose of Aung San Suu Kyi's speech which she delivers to a mass rally at the Shwedagon Pagoda in Rangoon on 26 August 1988?

10. What was Aung San's response to his fame after he formed the Burmese Independence Army was formed in 1942?

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