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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 do the students finally let De-hong on the train?
(a) She says she is going to speak against the Tings.
(b) She shows a ticket signed by Mao.
(c) She gives them the secret password,
(d) She pays them.

2. Which of these was something that Mao's young group did NOT do in his name?
(a) Burn books.
(b) Close down teahouses.
(c) Force people to do away with high heels.
(d) Take virtue from women.

3. What happens with the newspapers before the revolution that confirm Mao's concern that he is losing power?
(a) Some old Kuomintang officers are allowed to work there.
(b) An anonymous article is written against him.
(c) A new column is placed that questions certain leaders.
(d) An article Mao wrote is not published immediately.

4. What do Jung and her siblings take turns doing for months at a time while their parents are at a work farm?
(a) Visiting their parents.
(b) Tending to their sick relatives.
(c) Taking sick leave.
(d) Attending college.

5. What do the Chinese military leaders do in an effort to stop all the violence of the Red Guard and the other Maoist factions?
(a) Write peaceful articles in the newspaper.
(b) Punish severely those who are caught doing violent acts.
(c) Drop pamphlets from ths sky.
(d) Hold public prayer meetings.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the doctor arrange for De-hong to have while she is sick with hepatitis?

2. What frustrates Jung about her university experience?

3. What does Jung promise to deny herself to help assuage the guilt she feels about Yu-Fang's pain?

4. How old is Xiao-fang when he finally receives his first schooling?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What happens when De-hong tries to get a doctor to help Chang Shou-yu with another heart attack?

5. What happens when some students who had rounded up dissident teachers ask De-hong for guidance on what to do next?

6. How is Yu-Fang punished when she is denounced?

7. What is peculiar about the men who come to arrest Chang Shou-yu that shows how powerful Mao and his young leaders have grown?

8. What is a barefoot doctor?

9. What happened to Yu-Fang before she died?

10. Why does Jung not want to get well when she falls ill at the country camp?

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