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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does De-hong resign from work when Jung decides to stay in the West?
(a) She hopes to fill Jung's old teaching position.
(b) She fears judgment for having a daughter in the West.
(c) Xiao-fang falls ill and needs her attention.
(d) She wants time to visit with her daughter.

2. Why do people not throw away their newspapers?
(a) They need the fuel for fires.
(b) Mao's pictures and words are on almost every page.
(c) They recycle the paper.
(d) They use them to supplement their animal food.

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

4. What does Chang Shou-yu want to do as soon as his name is cleared of the un-Communistic claims against him?
(a) Move his family out of China.
(b) Work with the black market.
(c) Join a Capitalist movement.
(d) Commit suicide.

5. What happens when Xiao-fang is wrongly accused of harming another girl?
(a) He joins a street gang.
(b) He stops playing with other children.
(c) He becomes very sick.
(d) He runs away to avoid punishment.

6. Why is Jung not allowed to take the entrance exams for the universities?
(a) She is a woman.
(b) Her parents are enemies of the state.
(c) They are considered "bourgeois".
(d) Her grandmother was a concubine.

7. What causes the Red Guard to hesitate in continuing their violent tactics?
(a) Mao made a law with which they disagreed.
(b) One of the members commited suicide.
(c) Some of their parents were ashamed.
(d) One of them was accidentally killed.

8. What does Jin-ming spend much of his time doing?
(a) Reading contraband books.
(b) Selling his possessions to put food on the table.
(c) Selling books on the black market.
(d) Beating down dissidents with the Red Guard.

9. Why is Jung sent away from her country camp?
(a) Yu-Fang falls ill and needs tending.
(b) She falls ill and needs medicine.
(c) She is sent to prison for complaining.
(d) She is injured by a farming tool.

10. What is the term that describes a doctor that works alongside the peasants?
(a) Midwife.
(b) Doctor of the People.
(c) Barefoot Doctor.
(d) Simple Healer.

11. What does Jung want to spend every spare moment doing while she is at the work farm?
(a) Reading.
(b) Talking.
(c) Eating.
(d) Sleeping.

12. What does the doctor arrange for De-hong to have while she is sick with hepatitis?
(a) Fresh goat's milk.
(b) Acupuncture.
(c) Visits from her husband.
(d) Opium for the pain.

13. What does Jung promise to deny herself to help assuage the guilt she feels about Yu-Fang's pain?
(a) Sleep for a week.
(b) Opium.
(c) Reading books.
(d) The companionship of young men.

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

15. After seeing so much wrong with the Red Guard after their vindictive assaults, what are Jung's feelings about Mao?
(a) She resents him and feels cheated.
(b) She feels that he is not being best served by this group.
(c) She wonders if he knows what is really happening.
(d) She still believes wholeheartedly in him.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How is Jung able to come back to Chengdu when she thought she would be stuck at the work farm?

3. Why would it have been dangerous to be caught with a poem?

4. Why did Jung go to Peking?

5. For what is Chang Shou-yu taken to a hospital to be treated?

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