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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) It is his teahouse; he has nowhere else to go.
(c) He is hoping to scare the young people with his serenity.
(d) His time at the teahouse is his only hour of peace.

3. Why would it have been dangerous to be caught with a poem?
(a) Poetry was seen as a form of revolt.
(b) They were seen as anti-government messages.
(c) Poems were a mockery of the logical era Mao was building.
(d) Many Kuomintang codes were sent in poems.

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

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

6. What did Jung think her father needed most as he neared another mental breakdown after one of his heart attacks?
(a) His wife.
(b) Opium.
(c) Love.
(d) Rest.

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

8. Who allowed Mao's wife to gain so much power?
(a) Mao.
(b) Her father.
(c) The Tings.
(d) Her brother.

9. What language is Jung told to study?
(a) French.
(b) Japanese.
(c) Korean.
(d) English.

10. Why is De-hong trying to go to Peking after her husband is arrested?
(a) To lead a revolt against Mao.
(b) To see her daughter.
(c) To free her husband.
(d) To see Mao.

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

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

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

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

15. 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) The companionship of young men.
(c) Reading books.
(d) Opium.

Short Answer Questions

1. After seeing so much wrong with the Red Guard after their vindictive assaults, what are Jung's feelings about Mao?

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

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

4. Which of these was something that Mao's young group did NOT do in his name?

5. What is the name that Mao gave his group of young followers?

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