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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 does Chang Shou-yu NOT allow at the funeral?
(a) Monks playing instruments.
(b) A psaltery choir.
(c) An intricate coffin.
(d) A long procession.

2. Why is Xiao-hei so distant from his parents?
(a) Fang-Yu pays more attention to him than they do.
(b) He is veering his life in a "rightist" direction.
(c) He complains about having to work with iron at school.
(d) He speaks out against the party at home.

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

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

5. How does Pei-o die?
(a) He falls ill while working in the prison.
(b) He is hung in a public trial.
(c) He dies in prison.
(d) He starves.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who allows De-hong to read novels, attend the cinema, and wear colored blouses under her uniform?

3. Who helps a pregnant De-hong hide while they are on a raid?

4. What happens to De-hong's classmate when she is found with Communist literature?

5. Why are the Governor's wives unable to bear children?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why was Yang Ru-shan's main duty in life to produce male heirs?

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

4. What does Er-hong see while riding in her father's limo that makes her ashamed of her privileged life?

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

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. What happened to the Japanese people who remained in China after they were defeated?

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

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

10. 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.

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