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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Dr. Xia's son do to convince Yu-Fang and him to move out?
(a) He beats his father senseless.
(b) He threatens to kill himself.
(c) He pushes De-hong down a dry well.
(d) He attacks Yu-Fang.

2. Why does De-hong refuse so many marriage proposals?
(a) She does not feel worthy of any man's love.
(b) She has decided to give her life over to God.
(c) She wants to marry for love.
(d) She does not want to bring a child into such a cruel world.

3. How does Hui-ge accidentally cripple his own regiment?
(a) He gives faulty Communist information to his leaders.
(b) He leaves secret documents out where De Hong can see them.
(c) He leaks information about the Kuomintang defense system.
(d) De-hong hides detonators in his vehicle that are picked up by Communist officers.

4. What is De-hong's chief job at the Public Affairs Department?
(a) To feed the people.
(b) To submit paperwork for new names of the people.
(c) To swear people into office.
(d) To allot new homes and estates to new citizens.

5. Where does De-hong's family move to be better protected from the military looting?
(a) Inside the city walls.
(b) The home of a Kuomintang officer.
(c) A small village on the coast.
(d) A small house on the Kuomintang base.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are the Governor's wives unable to bear children?

2. Why are Dr. Xia's children angry with the match between Yu-Fang and their father?

3. What did the vivid picture show that Yu-Fang told De-hong would be the consequence of lying?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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