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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Jung have to rush to get back on a train during her trip to Peking?
(a) She had to use the restroom, but there are people riding the train on the toilets.
(b) She has to buy some food because she is starving.
(c) She thinks she sees Mao, but it turns out to be someone else.
(d) She feels so trapped that she needs some fresh air before the train leaves again.

2. Who helps a pregnant De-hong hide while they are on a raid?
(a) A Communist comrade.
(b) A Kuomingtang chieftain.
(c) Another pregnant woman.
(d) A local farmer.

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

4. What is the name that Mao gave his group of young followers?
(a) Children of the Tiger.
(b) The Communist Children.
(c) The Red Guards.
(d) Followers of Mao.

5. Why does Chang Shou-yu leave a sightseeing trip early?
(a) He hears of a threat against Mao.
(b) He has business to attend to.
(c) He gets news of his wife being sick.
(d) He is homesick.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Chang Shou-yu look back on with regret near the end of his life?

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

3. What was Mao's goal in sending the middle school children to the country?

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

5. What are people labeled when their loyalty to the Communist cause is questioned?

(see the answer key)

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