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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does De-hong do to get Xiao-hong permission to come to Chengdu with her husband?
(a) She has her husband declare that he is willing to go into rehabilitation.
(b) She pays a hefty fine to the government.
(c) She has a doctor declare that Xiao-hong has an incurable disease.
(d) She takes on a lowly job in a factory to prove her loyalty to the party.

4. For what are the boys in the Red Guard using their time in the Red Guard?
(a) To spend time with girls.
(b) To get power.
(c) To have special notice from Mao.
(d) To settle old debts.

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

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

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

8. Why did Jung go to Peking?
(a) For Red Guard training.
(b) To retrieve her mother.
(c) To see Mao.
(d) For a vacation.

9. Why does the man at the teahouse not leave while it is being torn apart?
(a) He is holding his own sort of protest.
(b) His time at the teahouse is his only hour of peace.
(c) It is his teahouse; he has nowhere else to go.
(d) He is hoping to scare the young people with his serenity.

10. What took the doctor so long to attend to Chang Shou-yu before he died?
(a) The doctor did not approve of Chang Shou-yu.
(b) He forgot his equipment and had to go back for it.
(c) He was busy with a tuberculosis epidemic.
(d) There was terrible traffic on his way there.

11. For what is Chang Shou-yu taken to a hospital to be treated?
(a) Yellow fever.
(b) A venereal disease.
(c) Cancer.
(d) Depression.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is so peculiar about the men who arrested Chang Shou-yu?

2. What does Jung's sister do that Jung thinks is disloyal to her parents?

3. Why does De-hong not want her husband to mail a letter to Mao voicing his concerns?

4. What language is Jung told to study?

5. Why does Jung have to rush to get back on a train during her trip to Peking?

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