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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Er-hong ask her father for a new name?
(a) She wants something that sounds more militant.
(b) It is popular to have a name change at this age.
(c) She is being made fun of at school.
(d) She wants her name to mean something more than swan.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What causes Mao to have school children do eye strengthening exercises?

(see the answer key)

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