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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 causes Mao to have school children do eye strengthening exercises?
(a) He wants the teachers to think he cares about the children.
(b) He reads a study that says these exercises will increase intelligence.
(c) He sees too many children wearing glasses.
(d) He fears they will overburden themselves before they are of a more useful age.

2. Why did De-hong live with her parents after her transfer instead of her husband?
(a) Wang Yu was not transferred and had to stay in Yibin.
(b) The Communist party only allowed a certain number of people to be in one home.
(c) They were considering a divorce at the time.
(d) Married couples were only allowed to be together on Saturdays.

3. Where did De-hong see Wang Yu before actually meeting him?
(a) In a secret meeting of officials.
(b) In a crowded Communist rally.
(c) On a wanted poster.
(d) At the celebration feast for the Communist victory.

4. What sickness does De-hong contract while working in the factories?
(a) Influenza.
(b) Yellow fever.
(c) Tuberculosis.
(d) Herpes.

5. What did the letter to Yu-Fang from General Xue's wife say?
(a) It ordered her to leave the house the General had given her.
(b) It was a summons for her to come work in the fields of labor at the Xue plantations.
(c) It was a legal order for her to give any future children to the Xue household.
(d) It berated her for her hateful ways and dishonored her family.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Er-hong ask her father for a new name?

2. What is the instrument called that Yu-Fang played so well for the General?

3. What is the Chinese dream according to Wang Yu?

4. Why does Wang Yu's sister take over the care for De-hong's daughter?

5. What was Er -hong's reaction when De-hong visited her at her boarding school?

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. What has Yu-Fang been so busy with while De-hong was being questioned?

3. What does De-hong see a friend's husband do on their journey that makes her lose faith in her own marriage?

4. What was the only valuable asset that Yang Ru-shan had to sell in order to gain the money he needed?

5. Why does Er-hong get the wrong idea about children in the West?

6. What does Chang Shou-yu do as his first moment of putting his family ahead of his party?

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

8. What does Jin-ming do at his boarding school that shows how truly attached he has become to his nurse?

9. Why does De-hong help Miss Tanaka to remain in China when she is Japanese?

10. How do De-hong and Wang Yu spend their wedding day?

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