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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 was De-hong allowed to leave prison for a short time?
(a) To sit with her mother in her dying moments.
(b) To care for Jung while she was sick.
(c) To testify in behalf of her husband.
(d) To help with the rice harvest.

2. What does her hatred of capitalism keep Jung from doing while in Peking?
(a) Purchasing anything--even food.
(b) Promoting her father's business.
(c) Taking a job with wages.
(d) Selling her belongings for food.

3. Who is sent to bring De-hong home from Peking?
(a) Wang Yu.
(b) Yu-Fang.
(c) Jung Chang.
(d) General Xue.

4. Of what is Mao afraid?
(a) A yellow fever epidemic.
(b) Communism failing.
(c) His power being threatened.
(d) Kuomintang officers killing him.

5. Why is Jung not allowed to take the entrance exams for the universities?
(a) Her grandmother was a concubine.
(b) She is a woman.
(c) Her parents are enemies of the state.
(d) They are considered "bourgeois".

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does Chang Shou-yu want to do as soon as his name is cleared of the un-Communistic claims against him?

4. What does Jin-ming spend much of his time doing?

5. What job does Xiao-hei take in hopes of being seen favorably by the party after his father's political position is threatened?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is a barefoot doctor?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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