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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 23.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Mao's new idea about doctors?
(a) They are spreading anti-Mao propaganda.
(b) They do not need much training.
(c) They need much more training than they are getting.
(d) They are of utmost importance in society.

2. 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) Poetry was seen as a form of revolt.
(d) Poems were a mockery of the logical era Mao was building.

3. What happens to Jun-ying that causes her to be unable to care for Xiao-fang?
(a) She is sent to a country camp.
(b) She is sent to prison.
(c) She has a stroke.
(d) She is beaten by the Red Guard.

4. Without whom does Jung say she would not have survived the Revolution?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her grandmother.
(c) Her siblings.
(d) Her friends.

5. Why was De-hong allowed to leave prison for a short time?
(a) To sit with her mother in her dying moments.
(b) To testify in behalf of her husband.
(c) To care for Jung while she was sick.
(d) To help with the rice harvest.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Yu-Fang do to show her trust in the party that makes her very uncomfortable?

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

3. Who allows De-hong to read novels, attend the cinema, and wear colored blouses under her uniform?

4. How are most of the young people feeling during the political unrest and the famine?

5. What does Chang Shou-yu NOT allow at the funeral?

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