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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How has Professor Ruan Wen committed suicide in Chapter 1, "The Madness Years"?
(a) By driving her car into a tree.
(b) By hanging herself from a closet door.
(c) By jumping into a river.
(d) By overdosing on sleeping pills.

2. Who is the author of the book Silent Spring?
(a) James Joyce.
(b) Matilda Smith.
(c) Oscar Wilde.
(d) Rachel Carson.

3. What types of centers does Captain Shi Qiang describe all around the world and working together in Chapter 10, "Da Shi"?
(a) Astral Command Centers.
(b) Government Command Centers.
(c) Battle Command Centers.
(d) Research Command Centers.

4. Who is the director of the Division Political Department that interviews Ye Wenjie in Chapter 2, "Silent Spring"?
(a) Director Zhang.
(b) Director Cheng.
(c) Director Wen.
(d) Director Lin.

5. What was the profession of Fu Lei?
(a) Writer.
(b) Translator and critic.
(c) Painter.
(d) Actor.

6. Whom did Ye Wenjie marry?
(a) Yang Dong.
(b) Yang Weining.
(c) Bai Mulin.
(d) Ruan Wen.

7. For how long had the Red Union "been attacking the headquarters of the April Twenty-eighth Brigade" when Chapter 1, "The Madness Years" begins?
(a) For six days.
(b) For two weeks.
(c) For two days.
(d) For four days.

8. Where is the space observation center that is run by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Peking University's Joint Center for Astrophysics?
(a) Wangfujing.
(b) Urumqi.
(c) Dongguan.
(d) Beijing.

9. When was the Planck satellite launched?
(a) 2001.
(b) 2013.
(c) 1992.
(d) 2009.

10. At the National Astronomical Center at the Space Observation Center, Sha Ruishan examines data from three satellites. When was the COBE launched, according to the narrator in Chapter 9, "The Universe Flickers"?
(a) 1963.
(b) 1989.
(c) 1993.
(d) 1979.

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

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

13. What literary device is employed in the following sentence from Chapter 1, "The Madness Years": "Their red flags fluttered restlessly around the brigade building like flames yearning for firewood"?
(a) Onomatopoeia.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Simile.
(d) Dramatic irony.

14. Who is Ye Zhetai's wife in the narrative?
(a) Ye Wenjie.
(b) Cheng Lihua.
(c) Shao Lin.
(d) Ruan Wen.

15. Who is the female military representative from the Intermediate People's Court that visits Ye Wenjie in jail in Chapter 2, "Silent Spring"?
(a) Shao Lin.
(b) Bai Mulin.
(c) Rachel Carson.
(d) Cheng Lihua.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the book Silent Spring published?

2. What are the May Seventh Cadre Schools described as in the Translator's Note in Chapter 3, "Red Coast I"?

3. For what publication is Bai Mulin a reporter?

4. What term refers to scientific research aimed to improve theories for better understanding or prediction of natural or other phenomena?

5. What field studies celestial objects at radio frequencies?

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