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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Ji Li's family do what they did with old pictures?
(a) They were Four Olds.
(b) They were tired of the connections.
(c) They wanted to preserve the past.
(d) They were bad evidence.

2. What was Long's occupation?
(a) Coach.
(b) Teacher.
(c) Principal.
(d) Facilitator.

3. Why was Ji Li included in a poster?
(a) She was a favorite student.
(b) She was a bad student.
(c) She was related to a teacher.
(d) She didn't make any of her own posters.

4. What picture hung on Ji Li's classroom wall at the beginning of the book?
(a) A dragon.
(b) Chairman Mao.
(c) A photograph of the Great Wall.
(d) A portrait of Tang.

5. What caused Ji Li to take over the cooking in her house?
(a) Song Po-Po was fired.
(b) She came of age.
(c) Her grandmother got sick.
(d) An Yi moved away.

6. What did Mom make a comforter out of?
(a) Bibs and rags.
(b) Grandmother's blouses.
(c) Ancestor clothing.
(d) Baby diapers and scarves.

7. What did Ji Li and her classmates point out to each other?
(a) Red Army members.
(b) Damages.
(c) Soldiers.
(d) Four Olds.

8. What was the sign finally broken with?
(a) Flame throwers.
(b) Knives.
(c) Machine guns.
(d) An axe.

9. What were the schools in China supposed to be producing?
(a) Socialists.
(b) Capitalists.
(c) Revisionists.
(d) Communists.

10. What was wrong with the song at the beginning of the book?
(a) The timing was off.
(b) The lyrics were strange.
(c) There were not enough boys.
(d) All of these.

11. What did people use the Propaganda Wall to do?
(a) Send messages.
(b) Learn about new laws.
(c) Turn in law breakers,
(d) Confess their guilt.

12. What did Ji Li's father once do that made him looked down on?
(a) Took a trip to Japan.
(b) Tried to leave the country.
(c) Fought a war.
(d) Was rich.

13. Where did Jia Hong-yu march?
(a) Shang Hai.
(b) The countryside.
(c) The Japanese front.
(d) The beach.

14. What did Dad decide to paint?
(a) His table.
(b) Grandmother's vases.
(c) His door.
(d) Leather trunks.

15. What did Ji Li's family do with old pictures?
(a) Burried them.
(b) Ripped them apart.
(c) Burned them.
(d) Sewed them into pillows.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Six Fingers run?

2. What was Ji Li most upset about while she was sick with a fever?

3. What Committee was over education when the schools re-opened?

4. What did the classes study when the school was re-opened?

5. How did Tian speak with Dad on his visit?

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