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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What number was Cheng assigned when she was taken to No. 1 Dentention House?
(a) 1721.
(b) 1608.
(c) 1806.
(d) 1512.

2. When did the revolution occur that occur that made China a republic?
(a) 1911.
(b) 1915.
(c) 1921.
(d) 1924.

3. Approximately how many prisoners worked in TIlanqiao prison compound producing goods?
(a) About 15,000.
(b) Over 10,000.
(c) Over 20,000.
(d) About 8,000.

4. When was possession of firearms in China declared to be illegal?
(a) 1951.
(b) 1949.
(c) 1947.
(d) 1953.

5. How late did the interrogator say that Cheng was to vote in an election for the Shanghai People's Congress?
(a) Three hours.
(b) One hour.
(c) Twenty-four hours.
(d) Two hours.

6. Where did Li Zhen's children live?
(a) Australia.
(b) Britain.
(c) Washington, D.C.
(d) Hong Kong.

7. When was the Chinese Communist Party founded?
(a) 1921.
(b) 1913.
(c) 1918.
(d) 1927.

8. Who had been staying at the technical school where Cheng's struggle meeting was held?
(a) Ex-staff of Shell.
(b) Labor Reform Workers.
(c) Former teachers.
(d) Former business owners.

9. What type of trees lined the drive of No. 1 Detention House?
(a) Willow trees.
(b) Plum trees.
(c) Tallow trees.
(d) Maple trees.

10. How many people did Mr. Hu say in each organization must be declared to be the "enemy" because that is the percentage that Chairman Mao mentioned in a speech?
(a) Twelve per cent.
(b) Three to five per cent.
(c) One per cent.
(d) Six per cent.

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

12. What was Cheng served for lunch the first day she was at No. 1 Detention House?
(a) Rice and pickled vegetables.
(b) Watery broth.
(c) Lukewarm watery rice porridge.
(d) Dry rice and boiled green cabbage.

13. In what year did Beijing publish the official propaganda line that the Kuomintang were about to launch an attack?
(a) 1957.
(b) 1959.
(c) 1963.
(d) 1962.

14. Who was the only person Cheng knew who succeeded in committing suicide in No. 1 Detention House?
(a) Chen Yi.
(b) Li Zhen.
(c) Dr. Song.
(d) Dr. Huang.

15. Whom did Cheng defend when she was interrogated in Chapter 8?
(a) Liu Shaoqi.
(b) Peng Dehuai.
(c) He Long.
(d) Chen Yun.

Short Answer Questions

1. What predominant emotion did Cheng feel during the struggle meeting held for her?

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?

3. By January 1969, how long had it been since Cheng was interrogated?

4. How long after Meiping's birthday party did Li Zhen commit suicide?

5. When did Defense Minister Lin Biao abolish all military insignia?

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