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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What do Jung and her siblings take turns doing for months at a time while their parents are at a work farm?
(a) Taking sick leave.
(b) Attending college.
(c) Visiting their parents.
(d) Tending to their sick relatives.

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

6. What allows Jung the power to challenge Mao in her mind for the first time?
(a) A revelatory dream.
(b) A statement from her favorite teacher.
(c) A poor speech by Mao.
(d) An article in Newsweek.

7. What was the special broadcast about on September 9, 1976?
(a) Mao was dead.
(b) Communism was challenged.
(c) China was going to war.
(d) Japan had attacked Peking.

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

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

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

11. What does Jung's sister do that Jung thinks is disloyal to her parents?
(a) She sells books on the black market.
(b) She has a boyfriend.
(c) She joins a dance troupe.
(d) She joins a street gang.

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

13. What does Yu-Fang do to prove that she is now accepting of her son-in-law after they are persecuted for un-Communistic behavior?
(a) Embraces him publicly.
(b) Writes him a letter expressing her thanks.
(c) Tends to his wounds.
(d) Defends him at a denunciation meeting.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Jung sent away from her country camp?

2. Why do the Chinese people not obey all the regulations put upon them by the Communist party?

3. Why was Jung so shocked about what happened to a woman accused of having a picture of pre-Communist leaders?

4. What was the reaction of one of the philosophy teachers that was confronted by the Red Guard and commanded to bow?

5. What does her hatred of capitalism keep Jung from doing while in Peking?

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