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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens when Xiao-fang is wrongly accused of harming another girl?
(a) He stops playing with other children.
(b) He joins a street gang.
(c) He becomes very sick.
(d) He runs away to avoid punishment.

2. What does twelve-year-old Xiao-hei do that is so different from other children of high officials?
(a) Joins a street gang.
(b) Speaks out against the Revolution.
(c) Buys and sells books on the black market.
(d) Goes to college.

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

4. Why does Wang Yu refuse to let De-hong have the driver take her home?
(a) The driver was enjoying the opera.
(b) He did not want her to travel alone with another man.
(c) He was fearful of what the Communist leaders would think.
(d) It was against customs to leave a performance early.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How long are De-hong and Wang Yu separated when he is transferred to Yibin?

2. Without whom does Jung say she would not have survived the Revolution?

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

4. Why does Er-hong ask her father for a new name?

5. What were the first words De-hong spoke when she woke up in the hospital?

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