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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 21.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jin-ming spend much of his time doing?
(a) Reading contraband books.
(b) Selling books on the black market.
(c) Beating down dissidents with the Red Guard.
(d) Selling his possessions to put food on the table.

2. What causes Mao to have school children do eye strengthening exercises?
(a) He wants the teachers to think he cares about the children.
(b) He reads a study that says these exercises will increase intelligence.
(c) He sees too many children wearing glasses.
(d) He fears they will overburden themselves before they are of a more useful age.

3. What does a neighbor tell Er-hong about the Kuomintang that confuses her?
(a) They were closely linked with the Communists.
(b) They were not always cruel.
(c) They were righteous and good-hearted.
(d) They were better leaders.

4. With what are the people of China commanded to replace their grass and flowers?
(a) Rice and wheat.
(b) Cabbage and cotton.
(c) Peaches and pears.
(d) Wheat and corn.

5. What were the first words De-hong spoke when she woke up in the hospital?
(a) I want a divorce.
(b) I love you.
(c) Long live Communism.
(d) Where is Mother?

Short Answer Questions

1. What is happening to De-hong when her husband refuses to let her have a driver take her home from the opera?

2. What does Jung's sister do that Jung thinks is disloyal to her parents?

3. Why do De-hong and her husband have to walk to their new transfer site?

4. What does Wang Yu do during their journey that disillusions De-hong about their marriage?

5. Why would it have been dangerous to be caught with a poem?

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