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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 American literature to suddenly be allowed?
(a) Ignorance is seen as a form of unpatriotism.
(b) President Nixon visits China.
(c) It is spread suddenly by the black market, and Mao knows he cannot stop it.
(d) Mao and the U.S. president make an alliance.

2. Why don't Er-hong's parents answer her questions about the political turmoil happening?
(a) They feel it is important for her to find the truth on her own.
(b) They are trying to shelter her.
(c) They fear she would object to the truth and then be in trouble.
(d) They do not know what is really happening.

3. Why does the man at the teahouse not leave while it is being torn apart?
(a) He is hoping to scare the young people with his serenity.
(b) He is holding his own sort of protest.
(c) It is his teahouse; he has nowhere else to go.
(d) His time at the teahouse is his only hour of peace.

4. What allows Jung the power to challenge Mao in her mind for the first time?
(a) A poor speech by Mao.
(b) A statement from her favorite teacher.
(c) A revelatory dream.
(d) An article in Newsweek.

5. What does De-hong do to the group of teachers that are accused of being subversives?
(a) Makes them pledge to obey, and orders them to probation.
(b) Writes down their names and sends the list to Mao.
(c) Joins them against Mao.
(d) Orders them to be released.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the special broadcast about on September 9, 1976?

2. Why would it have been dangerous to be caught with a poem?

3. What do Jung and her siblings take turns doing for months at a time while their parents are at a work farm?

4. What does Jung briefly consider when she realizes her time in Peking was wasted?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does the cook do for De-hong while she is sick with hepatitis?

3. What does Young make for Jung to show his kindness?

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

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

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

7. What happened to De-hong's brother when Mao formed the Red Guard?

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

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

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

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