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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to De-hong's classmate when she is found with Communist literature?
(a) She is recruited to the Communist party.
(b) She is tortured to death.
(c) She is branded as a traitor and sentenced to death.
(d) She is imprisoned.

2. What did Bao Qin enjoy about her experience at Junior High?
(a) Homely tasks.
(b) Music lessons.
(c) Reading and writing.
(d) Sports.

3. Why did Yu-Fang need assistance when standing up?
(a) She was crippled by her bound feet.
(b) She was recovering from an illness.
(c) She wanted to appear dainty.
(d) It was the custom of the time.

4. What does Er-hong do to show her father how humble she is?
(a) She never speaks bad of other people and always finds something nice to say.
(b) She gives of her allowance to underprivileged children.
(c) She asks her father to tell her what she can do to improve herself.
(d) She gets embarrassed when she is seen by her teacher in a limo.

5. What does Er-hong do to avoid going to the nursery during the days.
(a) Falls 'ill.'
(b) Sneaks away.
(c) Excels at her studies.
(d) Screams and kicks.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Wang Yu do during their journey that disillusions De-hong about their marriage?

2. What happened to the Japanese people who remained in China after they had been defeated?

3. Why would a widowed woman kill herself before being married to a second husband?

4. What did the vivid picture show that Yu-Fang told De-hong would be the consequence of lying?

5. Why are De-hong's children sent to boarding schools?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Dr. Xia give potions to all of the Governor's wives when he knows that the Governor is the one who is infertile.

2. Why does Wang Yu not allow his wife to be transferred to a larger hospital when she is giving birth while sick with tuberculosis?

3. How do Wang Yu and De-hong know each other before ever meeting each other?

4. Why was Yang Ru-shan in need of more money?

5. What happens to cause Dr. Xia to leave his children and his home?

6. After all the other groups that took up occupancy in China, the Communists did something that was surprising to the Chinese people. What was this?

7. How does Dr. Xia's oldest son show his disdain for his father's new wife?

8. How do Fang-Yu and Dr. Xia meet?

9. What is De-hong not allowed to use because of it's "bourgeois" nature?

10. What does a neighbor woman tell Er-hong that confuses her about the political views she has been taught?

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