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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. Where did Jia Hong-yu march?

2. What did Six Fingers run?

3. What was Ji Li happy about while she was sick with a fever?

4. What did Ji Li do after being lectured by the Red Successors?

5. What did Ji Li's family do with old pictures?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was Ji Li's name included on a poster?

2. What did Ji Li have to do outside of Jiang-Xi's house?

3. Why did Ji Yung get in his first fights?

4. How did Mom preserve her ancestor's clothing?

5. How did Grandmother feel about the Four lds, and how did Ji Li respond to this?

6. What did Six Fingers take from Ji Li and why?

7. Why did Ji Li smell smoke in her house one night?

8. Why did Ji Li have to take over the cooking in her house and how did she feel about this?

9. What was Ji Li's living situation at the beginning of the book?

10. What did Dad do with Grandmother's trunks, and why?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Maturity and aging was a strong theme in this book. Where did this theme appear, and how significant was it to the plot?

Essay Topic 2

Anger was a vice that reared its ugly head a number of times in this book. What are some examples of this, and how was the plot altered because of these incidents?

Essay Topic 3

What did Father do to protect his family from the searches, and how did this work out for them?

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