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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. How does Suu Kyi conclude her first letter to Amnesty International?
(a) To act swiftly.
(b) That everyone needs to work together to bring about change in Burma.
(c) To actively promote the situation in Burma worldwide.
(d) To pass on any additional avenues to address the situation in Burma that she did not suggest.

2. How did Aung San want to achieve nationalism?
(a) Constitutionally.
(b) Through non-violent resistance.
(c) With the assistance of the United Nations.
(d) Through force.

3. Who have taken on their traditional role as mentors?
(a) The British.
(b) The Buddhist sanha.
(c) The United Nations.
(d) The Indians.

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

5. What human rights violation does Suu Kyi cite in her second letter to Amnesty International?
(a) Putting young children to work in factories.
(b) Citizens being internally displaced.
(c) The involuntary conscription of young men.
(d) The imprisonment of those who speak against the government.

Short Answer Questions

1. Under what condition did Aung San vow he would resign his position as the leader of Burma?

2. What advice does Aung San give in his inauguration speech?

3. Who was the first group of people to settle in Burma?

4. What group was at the core of the Burma Independence Army (BIA)?

5. Suu Kyi states in her speech at the Shwedagon Pagoda in Rangoon on 26 August 1988 that people should so which of the following?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the popular response to such basic notions as "representative government, human rights, and the rule of law" in Burma?

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

3. How was the movement for democracy in Burma undermined during the twentieth century?

4. In his 1947 inauguration speech, what did Aung San caution the Burmese people about?

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

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

7. Recite the general message of five of the points on the bulleted list of "The Formation of a People's Committee".

8. Why were the Burmese not the ideal recipients of the leftist literature that was available in the 1930s?

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

10. How did one British writing describe a condescending stance toward the Burmese?

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