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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who personally arrested Jian Qing?

2. How many of Cheng's porcelain pieces did the Shanghai Museum wish to purchase?

3. What foreign official visited Beijing in February, 1972?

4. How was Cheng's disabled student handicapped?

5. In a newspaper in 1970, whose name was not listed with the names of members of the standing committee of the Politburo?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Cheng solve the problem of visitors showing up day and night?

2. What did it mean to get things through the "back door"?

3. When did Cheng first have an inkling that another round of power struggles was occurring at the top?

4. How did Cheng tactfully decline Mr. Hu's proposal?

5. What did Cheng decide had happened when the preface was removed from her book of Mao quotations?

6. Why did Cheng think about the irony of life in China as she watched her disabled student struggle with a disability?

7. Why did Hean think that the government wanted to be nice to Cheng after her release?

8. What agreement did China and Canada make in 1970?

9. Why wasn't China an egalitarian society?

10. What did Cheng want done before she would leave the detention house?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the persecution directed toward Cheng even after her release from the detention house.

Essay Topic 2

Using examples from the book, discuss the problems that the Zhus caused for Cheng and how Cheng solved those problems.

Essay Topic 3

Using examples from the book, discuss why Cheng had mixed emotions about leaving China.

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