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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Why would it have been dangerous to be caught with a poem?
(a) They were seen as anti-government messages.
(b) Many Kuomintang codes were sent in poems.
(c) Poems were a mockery of the logical era Mao was building.
(d) Poetry was seen as a form of revolt.

4. What does Er-hong do to show her father how humble she is?
(a) She asks her father to tell her what she can do to improve herself.
(b) She gets embarrassed when she is seen by her teacher in a limo.
(c) She gives of her allowance to underprivileged children.
(d) She never speaks bad of other people and always finds something nice to say.

5. Why do De-hong and her husband have to walk to their new transfer site?
(a) They will attract less attention this way.
(b) It is a form of civil protest.
(c) The train rails are broken.
(d) They are conserving fuel.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does twelve-year-old Xiao-hei do that is so different from other children of high officials?

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

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

4. What does a neighbor tell Er-hong about the Kuomintang that confuses her?

5. Why does Wang Yu refuse to let De-hong have the driver take her home?

(see the answer key)

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