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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Jin-ming send his sister from the black market?
(a) Weapons.
(b) Opium.
(c) Books.
(d) Paper and ink.

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

4. How is Jung able to communicate with her mother while Jung is in the West?
(a) E-mails.
(b) Telegrams.
(c) Telephone calls.
(d) Frequent visits.

5. What is Jung studying and anxious to practice on willing men while at the work farm?
(a) Acupuncture.
(b) Herbal remedies.
(c) Massage.
(d) Aromatherapy.

6. Why is De-hong so afraid of having a poor speech given about her husband at his funeral?
(a) She is afraid she would have a breakdown.
(b) She feels she will be punished in the afterlife.
(c) It will forever reflect badly on her children.
(d) She wants him to be honored.

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

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

9. 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 anonymous article is written against him.
(c) Some old Kuomintang officers are allowed to work there.
(d) An article Mao wrote is not published immediately.

10. 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 have been lied to.
(d) They do not understand the true consequences of disobedience.

11. What is the name that Mao gave his group of young followers?
(a) Children of the Tiger.
(b) Followers of Mao.
(c) The Red Guards.
(d) The Communist Children.

12. Why is the "Gang of Four" so quickly removed from power according to Jung?
(a) They step down out of grief for their loss.
(b) They had no real power without Mao.
(c) They do not have the same belief system as Mao and are not supported.
(d) They cannot piece together what was lost when Mao died.

13. Which of these was something that Mao's young group did NOT do in his name?
(a) Take virtue from women.
(b) Close down teahouses.
(c) Force people to do away with high heels.
(d) Burn books.

14. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is Chang Shou-yu's punishment for being denounced as a capitalist?

3. What did Jung think her father needed most as he neared another mental breakdown after one of his heart attacks?

4. What was the special broadcast about on September 9, 1976?

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

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