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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II: Chapter 5, Solitary Confinement.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What foreign company did Cheng's husband serve as general manager of their Shanghai office?
(a) Hess Oil and Chemical.
(b) Shell International Petroleum Company.
(c) Hunt Petroleum.
(d) Sinclair Oil Corporation.

2. At Cheng's struggle meeting, the man in the tinted glasses told how many Chinese were killed in the eight year war with Japan. How many Chinese were killed?
(a) One million.
(b) Ten million.
(c) Five million.
(d) Twelve million.

3. What was Cheng reading when the Red Guards came to loot her house?
(a) The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.
(b) Das Kapital.
(c) The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union.
(d) Civil Disobedience.

4. How many senior high school students who were members of the Red Guard came to loot Cheng's house?
(a) Thirty to forty.
(b) Twenty-five.
(c) Seventy.
(d) Fifty to sixty.

5. In 1966, how many people in Shanghai lived as Westerners?
(a) A couple dozen familes.
(b) Five or six familes.
(c) A dozen or so families.
(d) Maybe twenty families.

Short Answer Questions

1. What business did Mr. Hu own until 1956?

2. Who was the artist who painted the painting that hung in Cheng's dining room in 1966?

3. What was the road in front of the former British consulate renamed?

4. When did the revolution occur that occur that made China a republic?

5. Where did Li Zhen's children live?

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