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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was Mao's goal in sending the middle school children to the country?
(a) Thought reform through labor.
(b) Reform of thought through peasantry.
(c) Labor intensive training.
(d) Humility based thought reform.

3. What allows Jung the power to challenge Mao in her mind for the first time?
(a) A statement from her favorite teacher.
(b) A poor speech by Mao.
(c) An article in Newsweek.
(d) A revelatory dream.

4. 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.

5. 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) It is his teahouse; he has nowhere else to go.
(c) His time at the teahouse is his only hour of peace.
(d) He is holding his own sort of protest.

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

7. How many of De-hong's five children stay in China?
(a) 3
(b) 1
(c) 2
(d) 4

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

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

10. What is Chang Shou-yu's punishment for being denounced as a capitalist?
(a) He is put in prison for thirty days.
(b) He must attend denunciation meetings.
(c) He must pay hefty fines to the party.
(d) He is demoted and stripped of all his titles.

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

12. How is Jung able to come back to Chengdu when she thought she would be stuck at the work farm?
(a) Her rebel father dies.
(b) De-hong has a factory friend request that she work there.
(c) She pays a hefty fine.
(d) She is cleared of all wrongdoing.

13. Who helped Jung get back on the train on her trip home from Peking?
(a) A pickpocket.
(b) De-hong.
(c) Mao.
(d) Another Red Guard student.

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

15. What does De-hong do to the group of teachers that are accused of being subversives?
(a) Orders them to be released.
(b) Writes down their names and sends the list to Mao.
(c) Joins them against Mao.
(d) Makes them pledge to obey, and orders them to probation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the Chinese military leaders do in an effort to stop all the violence of the Red Guard and the other Maoist factions?

2. What happens when Xiao-fang is wrongly accused of harming another girl?

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

4. What does De-hong do to get Xiao-hong permission to come to Chengdu with her husband?

5. What is Jung studying and anxious to practice on willing men while at the work farm?

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