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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 teacher.
(b) A midwife.
(c) A wife.
(d) A Communist.

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

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

4. What is one thing that Chang Shou-yu will NOT let his children do in order to teach them ethic responsibility?
(a) Talk about Western propoganda.
(b) Read newspapers.
(c) Look their elders in the eyes.
(d) Sit in front of teachers at performances or movies.

5. What does Chang Shou-yu do that finally puts his love above his party?
(a) He warns De-hong of a trap.
(b) He rescues his mother-in-law from interrogators.
(c) He hides his family during a party raid.
(d) He allows her to ride a litter to the hospital when she is ill.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long does Yu-Fang wait to see her General again after her first interaction with him?

2. What does Mao do to "smoke out the dissidents"?

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

4. Why were De-hong and Wang Yu forced to "self-admonishment"?

5. Why did Lin's husband pass her around to family members?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to the man that Dr. Xia tries to treat with rice from the black market?

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

5. Why is Mao encouraging "intellectuals" to challenge their leaders?

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

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

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

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

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

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