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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. When Cheng was taken to an interrogation in Chapter 8, how many men were in the room?
(a) Six.
(b) Five.
(c) Three.
(d) Four.

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

3. Who did the interrogator say was a double agent at Shell?
(a) The Australian secretary to the general manager.
(b) The British secretary to the general manager.
(c) The White Russian secretary to the general manager.
(d) The German secretary to the general manager.

4. While Cheng was in the hospital for her hemorrhaging, what extra food was she given one evening?
(a) An apple.
(b) A small orange.
(c) A small banana.
(d) A pear.

5. What year did Mr. Hu start the business that later was turned over to the Communists?
(a) 1924.
(b) 1930.
(c) 1934.
(d) 1927.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many rooms and bathrooms were in Cheng's house?

2. According to the interrogator, what British agents dealt with Cheng?

3. Who accompanied Cheng to the hospital in Chapter 9?

4. In Chapter 9, to which ward at the hospital was Cheng taken?

5. Where was Cheng kicked when she tried to stop a young man from breaking some of her collection when the Red Guards were in her home?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why did Li Zhen commit suicide?

4. What was Cheng's job at the Shell Petroleum Company?

5. How did Xiao Xu escape to Hong Kong?

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

7. What nightmare did Cheng have in Chapter 6?

8. What did Cheng do to try to discipline herself with physical and mental exercise?

9. Why did Xiao Xu tell Cheng that she and Meiping should flee to Hong Kong?

10. What did a Red Guard do when Cheng told him it was against the Constitution of the People's Republic to enter a private home without a search warrant?

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