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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I: "Silent Spring," Chapters 1-3 and Part II: "Three Body," Chapters 4-7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the source of the papers that are presented to Ye Wenjie in jail in Chapter 2, "Silent Spring"?
(a) Shao Lin.
(b) Ruan Wen.
(c) Wenxue.
(d) Xine.

2. Who holds Ye Wenjie back when she tries to save her father in Chapter 1, "The Madness Years"?
(a) Her sister.
(b) Two janitors.
(c) Her uncle.
(d) Her mother.

3. What was the profession held by Hai Mo?
(a) Chemist.
(b) Newspaper reporter.
(c) Butcher.
(d) Screenwriter and novelist.

4. What are the May Seventh Cadre Schools described as in the Translator's Note in Chapter 3, "Red Coast I"?
(a) Overseas schools for students studying foreign affairs.
(b) Schools for disabled children.
(c) Labor camps for Communist re-education.
(d) Private boarding schools for the elite.

5. How many regiments comprise the Inner Mongolia Production and Construction Corps, according to the narrator in Chapter 2, "Silent Spring"?
(a) 41.
(b) 32.
(c) 16.
(d) 19.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much time has passed since Ye Zhetai's death in the beginning of Chapter 2, "Silent Spring"?

2. What is the central focus of the book Silent Spring?

3. What did Ye Wenjie study in college?

4. From what belief system does the translator note the term "Monsters and Demons" is derived in Chapter 1, "The Madness Years"?

5. For how long had the Red Union "been attacking the headquarters of the April Twenty-eighth Brigade" when Chapter 1, "The Madness Years" begins?

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