View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 24.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Tings' fall from grace mean for the people?
(a) A break in Communist power.
(b) The fall of Mao's regime.
(c) Fewer denunciation meetings.
(d) Less food.

2. What crashes into De-hong's house?
(a) A military jeep.
(b) A dud bomb shell.
(c) A car with Kuomintang officers inside.
(d) A truck full of Communist prisoners.

3. What do Jung and her siblings take turns doing for months at a time while their parents are at a work farm?
(a) Attending college.
(b) Taking sick leave.
(c) Visiting their parents.
(d) Tending to their sick relatives.

4. Why does the man at the teahouse not leave while it is being torn apart?
(a) He is hoping to scare the young people with his serenity.
(b) His time at the teahouse is his only hour of peace.
(c) It is his teahouse; he has nowhere else to go.
(d) He is holding his own sort of protest.

5. What does Chang Shou-yu suggest that De-hong do in order to protect his children?
(a) Divorce him.
(b) Move in with her mother.
(c) Hide in a country village.
(d) Join him in his efforts.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Er-hong so interested in being helpful to everyone she meets?

2. Why do Jun-ying and a maid move in with Fang-Yu?

3. What does Jung briefly consider when she realizes her time in Peking was wasted?

4. What is the party doing that is grating so heavily on De-hong's nerves while she is being questioned?

5. Why do people not throw away their newspapers?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 362 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample