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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. Why does Wang Yu refuse to let De-hong have the driver take her home?
(a) It was against customs to leave a performance early.
(b) The driver was enjoying the opera.
(c) He did not want her to travel alone with another man.
(d) He was fearful of what the Communist leaders would think.

2. What does Dr. Xia's son do to convince Yu-Fang and him to move out?
(a) He pushes De-hong down a dry well.
(b) He beats his father senseless.
(c) He attacks Yu-Fang.
(d) He threatens to kill himself.

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

4. Why do Jun-ying and a maid move in with Fang-Yu?
(a) She cannot handle the four children alone.
(b) Their houses are burnt down, and they need shelter.
(c) She falls ill and needs care.
(d) They hope to win Fang-Yu's good graces and get some of her inheritance money.

5. What happened to the Japanese people who remained in China after they had been defeated?
(a) They were left alone.
(b) They were killed or committed suicide.
(c) They were hanged in public trials.
(d) They were respected for the help they gave.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many times did De-hong's husband contact her during her six-month incarceration?

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

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

5. What were the only two things that Chinese people were allowed to eat?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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