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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 many rooms and bathrooms were in Cheng's house?
(a) Five rooms and two bathrooms.
(b) Seven rooms and three bathrooms.
(c) Nine rooms and four bathrooms.
(d) Four rooms and one bathroom.

2. In Chapter 7, when did Cheng stop receiving a newspaper in her cell?
(a) December 2.
(b) November 15.
(c) December 27.
(d) November 30.

3. When did the Red Guards seize power in Shanghai?
(a) January 27.
(b) January 4.
(c) January 12.
(d) January 15.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who had been staying at the technical school where Cheng's struggle meeting was held?

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

3. What did Cheng silently recite to herself when handcuffs were waved at her and she was ordered to confess?

4. At the beginning of Chapter 3, what flowers could Cheng smell from her garden?

5. What type of vehicle was used to take Cheng to and from the struggle meeting?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Dr. Song commit suicide in No. 1 Detention House?

2. How did Xiao Xu escape to Hong Kong?

3. During a meeting at the technical school in March 1969, why did Cheng laugh when Tao gave a confession?

4. Why didn't Cheng go to Hong Kong when Shell applied to close the office in 1965?

5. What did the Red Guards do to Cheng's store cupboard when they looted her house?

6. Why did Cheng think the United States trained doctor was working in the prison hospital?

7. Describe Cheng's cell at No. 1 Detention House.

8. What advice did Mr. Hu come to give Cheng in Chapter 2?

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

10. What damage did Xiao Xu, a schoolteacher friend of Meiping's, report that the Red Guards were perpetrating in Shanghai?

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