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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jung briefly consider when she realizes her time in Peking was wasted?
(a) Leaving the Red Guard.
(b) Running home.
(c) Staying longer.
(d) Suicide.

2. What causes American literature to suddenly be allowed?
(a) Mao and the U.S. president make an alliance.
(b) It is spread suddenly by the black market, and Mao knows he cannot stop it.
(c) President Nixon visits China.
(d) Ignorance is seen as a form of unpatriotism.

3. What job does Xiao-hei take in hopes of being seen favorably by the party after his father's political position is threatened?
(a) Air Force cfficer.
(b) Caring for swine.
(c) Factory consultant.
(d) Teacher.

4. Why does De-hong not want her husband to mail a letter to Mao voicing his concerns?
(a) She knows it will label their children as Blacks.
(b) She knows it will not do any good.
(c) She fears that he will be killed.
(d) She wants the letter to be from both of them.

5. Of what is Mao afraid?
(a) His power being threatened.
(b) A yellow fever epidemic.
(c) Kuomintang officers killing him.
(d) Communism failing.

6. What frustrates Jung about her university experience?
(a) She cannot keep up with her lessons.
(b) She is mocked for her family history.
(c) She spends so much time in military training.
(d) Her teachers are disrespectful of Mao.

7. From what does Chang Shou-yu suffer when he gets home from Peking after his incarceration?
(a) Tuberculosis
(b) Pneumonia
(c) Schizophrenia
(d) Yellow fever

8. Why is the "Gang of Four" so quickly removed from power according to Jung?
(a) They cannot piece together what was lost when Mao died.
(b) They had no real power without Mao.
(c) They step down out of grief for their loss.
(d) They do not have the same belief system as Mao and are not supported.

9. Why does Yu-Fang faint when the guards will not let her drop off a package of food at the prison?
(a) She is starving.
(b) She believes her daughter is dead.
(c) She witnesses a brutal beating in the streets.
(d) She sees Mao.

10. How are most of the young people feeling during the political unrest and the famine?
(a) Brave and true,
(b) Confused and concerned.
(c) Defensive and suspicious.
(d) Confident and strong.

11. What does Jung's sister do that Jung thinks is disloyal to her parents?
(a) She joins a dance troupe.
(b) She joins a street gang.
(c) She sells books on the black market.
(d) She has a boyfriend.

12. What does Mao call for to help him feel secure in his power after the famine?
(a) More food for the people.
(b) Another list of dissidents.
(c) Stringent laws against novels and plays.
(d) Harsher punishments on traitors.

13. What does De-hong say it would be like if he mails his letter?
(a) As if he were a tiger falling headlong into an inescapable trap.
(b) It would be as though he were a simple stone next to a large castle.
(c) He would cause ripples in their lives as a pebble will cause ripples in a lake.
(d) It would be as if a moth was throwing itself on the flame.

14. What is so peculiar about the men who arrested Chang Shou-yu?
(a) They had been seen protesting Mao.
(b) They had no identification or warrants.
(c) They did not look Chinese.
(d) They were far too young to be police officers.

15. Why do the Chinese people not obey all the regulations put upon them by the Communist party?
(a) They are refusing to follow laws with which they do not agree.
(b) They have been lied to.
(c) They do not know all of them at any given time.
(d) They do not understand the true consequences of disobedience.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Chang Shou-yu's punishment for being denounced as a capitalist?

2. Who helped Jung get back on the train on her trip home from Peking?

3. Who is sent to bring De-hong home from Peking?

4. What does Jung promise to deny herself to help assuage the guilt she feels about Yu-Fang's pain?

5. What allows Jung the power to challenge Mao in her mind for the first time?

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