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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 Yu-Fang do to pass the time in her loneliness?
(a) Writes love letters to her General.
(b) Reads and plays Mah Jong.
(c) Visits with her family.
(d) Holds parties at her home.

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

3. How does Hui-ge accidentally cripple his own regiment?
(a) He leaves secret documents out where De Hong can see them.
(b) He gives faulty Communist information to his leaders.
(c) De-hong hides detonators in his vehicle that are picked up by Communist officers.
(d) He leaks information about the Kuomintang defense system.

4. What does Wang Yu do during their journey that disillusions De-hong about their marriage?
(a) Speaks ill of her family and friends.
(b) Accepts a ride in a jeep when she must walk.
(c) Mocks her for her slow pace.
(d) Talks at length with other women in the party.

5. What are the Chinese children doing while at school during the famine?
(a) Working in the fields.
(b) Memorizing Communist creeds.
(c) Sitting and doing nothing to learn self-discipline.
(d) Gathering and melting down scrap metal.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Fang-Yu do to make a meal for her daughter?

2. Why does De-hong feel as though she has let Hui-ge down?

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

4. What was Jin-ming's response when De-hong visited him at his boarding school?

5. Why is Xiao-hei so distant from his parents?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How do Fang-Yu and Dr. Xia meet?

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. How do Wang Yu and De-hong know each other before ever meeting each other?

10. What was the first thing that attracted General Xue's attention to Fang-Yu?

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