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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 is De-hong studying to become?
(a) A Communist.
(b) A midwife.
(c) A teacher.
(d) A wife.

2. Why can Chang Shou-yu buy toys and books, but not food?
(a) He was commanded to do so by the party.
(b) There is no food; it was not planted or harvested.
(c) Food is much more expensive.
(d) He feels that feeding the mind is more important.

3. How did the Kuomintang view the Chinese people?
(a) Kindly people with no military force.
(b) Bugs to be squashed.
(c) Slaves who owed them love and respect.
(d) Skilled craftsmen.

4. Why are the Governor's wives unable to bear children?
(a) The Governor is infertile.
(b) They are all too young to bear children.
(c) The wives secretly and purposely end all pregnancies.
(d) The wives all share a disease that makes them infertile.

5. What is De-hong's chief job at the Public Affairs Department?
(a) To feed the people.
(b) To swear people into office.
(c) To submit paperwork for new names of the people.
(d) To allot new homes and estates to new citizens.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were the first words De-hong spoke when she woke up in the hospital?

2. About what does Wang Yu ask De-hong for permission to write the Communist leaders?

3. With what are the people of China commanded to replace their grass and flowers?

4. What were the General's final actions before his death?

5. Why did De-hong live with her parents after her transfer instead of her husband?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does De-hong live in a different house than her husband?

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

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

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

5. What did Chang Shou-yu do to show his growing love for his family that makes De-hong call him a "silly old thing"?

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

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

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

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

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

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