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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. What day of the week were prisoners in No. 1 Detention House allowed to have brooms?
(a) Sundays.
(b) Fridays.
(c) Mondays.
(d) Saturdays.

2. How many days was Cheng forced to return to the interrogation room and read a letter drafted by Mao Zedong in 1948?
(a) 4 days.
(b) 2 days.
(c) 3 days.
(d) 5 days.

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

4. When was Mao's essay "On the Dictatorship of the People's Democracy" published?
(a) June 23, 1951.
(b) May 12, 1950.
(c) April 13, 1948.
(d) July 1, 1949.

5. How much money was Cheng carrying when she arrived at No. 1 Detention House?
(a) 300 yuan.
(b) 400 yuan.
(c) 100 yuan.
(d) 200 yuan.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Li Zhen's children live?

2. 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?

3. What type of trees lined the drive of No. 1 Detention House?

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

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Cheng gain a moral advantage over her interrogator and reinforce her self-confidence?

2. What was one old man's experience with a "rotating struggle"?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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