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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

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) Close down teahouses.
(c) Burn books.
(d) Take virtue from women.

4. What is Chang Shou-yu's punishment for being denounced as a capitalist?
(a) He must attend denunciation meetings.
(b) He is demoted and stripped of all his titles.
(c) He must pay hefty fines to the party.
(d) He is put in prison for thirty days.

5. How are most of the young people feeling during the political unrest and the famine?
(a) Defensive and suspicious.
(b) Confused and concerned.
(c) Brave and true,
(d) Confident and strong.

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

7. Why were Jung and her classmates taken to a port city during one of their university classes?
(a) To see and study the ocean.
(b) To help in a crab meat factory.
(c) To practice their English with sailors.
(d) To learn of the tide movements.

8. How does Jung feel about Mao's death?
(a) She does not believe it is true.
(b) She is confused and conflicted.
(c) She is euphoric.
(d) She is heartbroken.

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

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

11. 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) Write peaceful articles in the newspaper.
(c) Punish severely those who are caught doing violent acts.
(d) Hold public prayer meetings.

12. For what are the boys in the Red Guard using their time in the Red Guard?
(a) To settle old debts.
(b) To have special notice from Mao.
(c) To get power.
(d) To spend time with girls.

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

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

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do people not throw away their newspapers?

2. From what does Chang Shou-yu suffer when he gets home from Peking after his incarceration?

3. What does De-hong do to the group of teachers that are accused of being subversives?

4. Why does the man at the teahouse not leave while it is being torn apart?

5. What frustrates Jung about her university experience?

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