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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. By January 1969, how long had it been since Cheng was interrogated?
(a) Over two years.
(b) Over three years.
(c) Eighteen months.
(d) Sixteen months.

2. Who accompanied Cheng to the hospital in Chapter 9?
(a) Cheng's former interrogator.
(b) A female guard.
(c) A male guard.
(d) A Labor Reform worker.

3. What does Cheng say that her collection may be worth when the Red Guards are looting her home?
(a) A million yuan.
(b) Ten thousand yuan.
(c) One hundred thousand yuan.
(d) A thousan yuan.

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

5. What was the name of club where Cheng danced with a Swiss friend in the 1950s?
(a) British Club.
(b) French Club.
(c) German Club.
(d) Shanghai Club.

Short Answer Questions

1. How late did the interrogator say that Cheng was to vote in an election for the Shanghai People's Congress?

2. What number was Cheng assigned when she was taken to No. 1 Dentention House?

3. Whom did Cheng defend when she was interrogated in Chapter 8?

4. What had Cheng's servant Lao-zhao left for her on a tray on a coffee table on July 3, 1966?

5. In 1966, where did Winnie Huang teach English and Latin?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Lao-zhao get information to Cheng?

2. How did the bout of pneumonia that Cheng suffered in the winter of 1967 lead to her rapid physical deterioration?

3. Why did Cheng decide not to make a false confession?

4. What did Mr. Hu say about Communist Party officials and an inferiority complex?

5. Why wasn't Cheng afraid to die?

6. What did going to prison mean in Mao Zedong's China?

7. Why did the overthrow of the Shanghai municipal government by the radicals shatter any hope Cheng had of a quick solution to her predicament?

8. How were the inmates' sheets laundered at No. 1 Detention House?

9. Why did Cheng often think back to a few hours before midnight on July 3, 1966?

10. What did Cheng see from the window of Meiping's room during the looting by the Red Guards?

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