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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why is De-hong imprisoned again?
(a) For her husband's insubordinance.
(b) She was heard denouncing Mao in public.
(c) For her past Kuomintang connections.
(d) She threw away a newspaper.

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

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

5. 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) Write peaceful articles in the newspaper.
(b) Hold public prayer meetings.
(c) Drop pamphlets from ths sky.
(d) Punish severely those who are caught doing violent acts.

6. What happens with the newspapers before the revolution that confirm Mao's concern that he is losing power?
(a) A new column is placed that questions certain leaders.
(b) An article Mao wrote is not published immediately.
(c) Some old Kuomintang officers are allowed to work there.
(d) An anonymous article is written against him.

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

8. What does Mao call for to help him feel secure in his power after the famine?
(a) Another list of dissidents.
(b) Harsher punishments on traitors.
(c) More food for the people.
(d) Stringent laws against novels and plays.

9. What is Jung criticized for by the government while teaching at the university?
(a) She is too sad about her father's death.
(b) She does not work long enough hours.
(c) She is teaching English.
(d) She is twenty-five with no plans to marry.

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

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

12. 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 knows it will label their children as Blacks.
(c) She wants the letter to be from both of them.
(d) She fears that he will be killed.

13. How old is Xiao-fang when he finally receives his first schooling?
(a) 6
(b) 10
(c) 16
(d) 12

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What allows Jung the power to challenge Mao in her mind for the first time?

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

3. What do the doctors find when De-hong is hospitalized for hemorrhaging?

4. What does Jin-ming spend much of his time doing?

5. What does the Tings' fall from grace mean for the people?

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