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

2. What did the letter to Yu-Fang from General Xue's wife say?
(a) It was a summons for her to come work in the fields of labor at the Xue plantations.
(b) It was a legal order for her to give any future children to the Xue household.
(c) It berated her for her hateful ways and dishonored her family.
(d) It ordered her to leave the house the General had given her.

3. What was Yang Ru-shan's main duty in life?
(a) To care for his elderly parents.
(b) To make the farm prosper.
(c) To produce male heirs.
(d) To expand the family fortune.

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

5. Why did Yu-Fang need assistance when standing up?
(a) It was the custom of the time.
(b) She was recovering from an illness.
(c) She was crippled by her bound feet.
(d) She wanted to appear dainty.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Dr. Xia give a man that led to his imprisonment and eventual death?

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

3. Why do Jun-ying and a maid move in with Fang-Yu?

4. What is the Chinese dream according to Wang Yu?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Dr. Xia give potions to all of the Governor's wives when he knows that the Governor is the one who is infertile.

3. Why does Chang Shou-yu want to leave Yibin so soon?

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

5. How does Dr. Xia's oldest son show his disdain for his father's new wife?

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

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

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

9. What is De-hong not allowed to use because of it's "bourgeois" nature?

10. What is De-hong allowed to do to help the Communist movement?

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