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

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

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

4. What job does Xiao-hei take in hopes of being seen favorably by the party after his father's political position is threatened?
(a) Air Force cfficer.
(b) Caring for swine.
(c) Teacher.
(d) Factory consultant.

5. Why do people not throw away their newspapers?
(a) They need the fuel for fires.
(b) Mao's pictures and words are on almost every page.
(c) They recycle the paper.
(d) They use them to supplement their animal food.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is De-hong trying to go to Peking after her husband is arrested?

2. What does De-hong do to the group of teachers that are accused of being subversives?

3. For what is Chang Shou-yu taken to a hospital to be treated?

4. What are people labeled when their loyalty to the Communist cause is questioned?

5. What was Mao's new idea about doctors?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to an article that Mao writes for the newspaper?

2. Why won't Chang Shou-yu help Jung get into the university?

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. What happened to Yu-Fang before she died?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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