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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 happens to De-hong's classmate when she is found with Communist literature?
(a) She is tortured to death.
(b) She is imprisoned.
(c) She is branded as a traitor and sentenced to death.
(d) She is recruited to the Communist party.

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

3. What was Yang Ru-shan's one valuable asset?
(a) A beautiful daughter.
(b) A skilled wife.
(c) A large opium farm.
(d) A large estate.

4. How long does Yu-Fang wait to see her General again after her first interaction with him?
(a) Six months.
(b) Six years.
(c) Two years.
(d) Three months.

5. What is the party doing that is grating so heavily on De-hong's nerves while she is being questioned?
(a) Giving Wang Yu power.
(b) Imposing unfair restrictions.
(c) Instating ridiculous safety measures.
(d) Making demands of and suspecting people who are innocent.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Wang Yu when his father died?

2. What is Yu-lin studying to become?

3. What did the letter to Yu-Fang from General Xue's wife say?

4. Why was Yu-Fang's father so desperate for money?

5. What happened to the Japanese people who remained in China after they had been defeated?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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 is Chang Shou-yu so willing to spend money on books and toys during the famine instead of the food they need?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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