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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) Brave and true,
(b) Confused and concerned.
(c) Defensive and suspicious.
(d) Confident and strong.

2. For what are the boys in the Red Guard using their time in the Red Guard?
(a) To settle old debts.
(b) To spend time with girls.
(c) To have special notice from Mao.
(d) To get power.

3. What does Jung briefly consider when she realizes her time in Peking was wasted?
(a) Running home.
(b) Suicide.
(c) Leaving the Red Guard.
(d) Staying longer.

4. Without whom does Jung say she would not have survived the Revolution?
(a) Her friends.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her siblings.
(d) Her grandmother.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Chang Shou-yu suggest that De-hong do in order to protect his children?

2. Why do the Chinese people not obey all the regulations put upon them by the Communist party?

3. What does Jung want to spend every spare moment doing while she is at the work farm?

4. What causes the Red Guard to hesitate in continuing their violent tactics?

5. What causes American literature to suddenly be allowed?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How does Jung feel about Mao's death?

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

6. What does Jung's younger sister do with her boyfriend?

7. What happens as Jung tries to re-board her train when coming home from her trip to Peking?

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

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

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

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