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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. Where does De-hong's family move to be better protected from the military looting?
(a) The home of a Kuomintang officer.
(b) Inside the city walls.
(c) A small village on the coast.
(d) A small house on the Kuomintang base.

2. What is De-hong's first impression of Wang Yu?
(a) He has a powerful presence.
(b) He seems rigid in his beliefs but warm to comrades.
(c) He is dreamy and looks like a poet.
(d) He looks hard and cold.

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

4. Why does De-hong feel as though she has let Hui-ge down?
(a) She cannot stop his execution.
(b) He was wrongly accused, and no one would believe the truth that De Hong knew.
(c) She let him believe she cared for him.
(d) She could not deliver a message he tried to send to his family.

5. What does Fang-Yu do to make a meal for her daughter?
(a) Steals food from a neighbor.
(b) Begs food off the street.
(c) Gleans rice from the fields to cook.
(d) Sells jewlery to buy food to cook.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do Jun-ying and a maid move in with Fang-Yu?

2. What was Fang-Yu busy with while De-hong was being incarcerated?

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

4. What has Er-hong been taught about the children in the Western countries?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

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

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

6. Why is Chang Shou-yu so willing to spend money on books and toys during the famine instead of the food they need?

7. What does Fang-Yu do on her visit with De-hong that the Communist Party forbids?

8. Why does Wang Yu refuse to let De-hong have the driver take her home early from the opera?

9. What is De-hong allowed to do to help the Communist movement?

10. Why would a Japanese child deserve more respect than a Chinese man?

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