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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. How are most of the young people feeling during the political unrest and the famine?
(a) Confused and concerned.
(b) Defensive and suspicious.
(c) Brave and true,
(d) Confident and strong.

2. What causes the Red Guard to hesitate in continuing their violent tactics?
(a) Some of their parents were ashamed.
(b) One of the members commited suicide.
(c) Mao made a law with which they disagreed.
(d) One of them was accidentally killed.

3. What does the Tings' fall from grace mean for the people?
(a) A break in Communist power.
(b) The fall of Mao's regime.
(c) Less food.
(d) Fewer denunciation meetings.

4. Why was Jung so shocked about what happened to a woman accused of having a picture of pre-Communist leaders?
(a) She was beaten beyond what the punishment for her crime should have been.
(b) The woman looked just like her mom.
(c) The complaint was lodged for revenge and was not true.
(d) The woman died and was innocent.

5. Why is De-hong so afraid of having a poor speech given about her husband at his funeral?
(a) She feels she will be punished in the afterlife.
(b) It will forever reflect badly on her children.
(c) She is afraid she would have a breakdown.
(d) She wants him to be honored.

Short Answer Questions

1. Without whom does Jung say she would not have survived the Revolution?

2. What does her hatred of capitalism keep Jung from doing while in Peking?

3. Why is De-hong imprisoned again?

4. What is Jung studying and anxious to practice on willing men while at the work farm?

5. Why do the students finally let De-hong on the train?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Jung so eager to go and study in the West?

2. Why was Specs turned down for a promotion?

3. What does Jung want more than anything our of her university experience?

4. What act of sacrifice does Jung do while caring for her sick grandmother in the hospital?

5. Why was Jung so shocked about the woman who was beaten for having pictures of pre-Communism leaders?

6. Why does Jung not spend any of the money her grandmother had given her while she is in Peking?

7. What does Chang Shou-yu plan to do about his growing concerns about the direction the Revolution is taking?

8. How are Chang Shou-yu and De-hong still making money even though they are not working due to their illnesses?

9. How is Chang Shou-yu punished when he is denounced?

10. What happens to Chang Shou-yu after he is released from prison?

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