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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What causes Jung to reflect on Mao's unfair treatment of the people while on vacation with her sister?
(a) She sees him beat a poor farmer.
(b) A picture of oneof his vacation homes.
(c) She reads an article in Newsweek.
(d) She watches an uncle die of starvation.

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

3. What does Chang Shou-yu look back on with regret near the end of his life?
(a) His strong position for Communism.
(b) His failings as a father.
(c) His battles with Yu-Fang.
(d) His harshness towards his wife.

4. What are people labeled when their loyalty to the Communist cause is questioned?
(a) White or Gray.
(b) Yellow or Red.
(c) Blue or Brown.
(d) Gray or Black.

5. What does twelve-year-old Xiao-hei do that is so different from other children of high officials?
(a) Buys and sells books on the black market.
(b) Goes to college.
(c) Joins a street gang.
(d) Speaks out against the Revolution.

6. 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) Teacher.
(c) Factory consultant.
(d) Caring for swine.

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

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

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

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

11. What is the last thing that Jung needs before she can move closer to Chengdu?
(a) A document of permission.
(b) A seal from a registrar.
(c) The signature from Mao.
(d) A form of transportation.

12. Who is sent to bring De-hong home from Peking?
(a) General Xue.
(b) Wang Yu.
(c) Yu-Fang.
(d) Jung Chang.

13. What do the Chinese military leaders do in an effort to stop all the violence of the Red Guard and the other Maoist factions?
(a) Drop pamphlets from ths sky.
(b) Hold public prayer meetings.
(c) Punish severely those who are caught doing violent acts.
(d) Write peaceful articles in the newspaper.

14. Why do the students finally let De-hong on the train?
(a) She shows a ticket signed by Mao.
(b) She gives them the secret password,
(c) She pays them.
(d) She says she is going to speak against the Tings.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was De-hong allowed to leave prison for a short time?

2. What was Mao's goal in sending the middle school children to the country?

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

4. Why were Jung and her classmates taken to a port city during one of their university classes?

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

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