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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 many of De-hong's five children stay in China?
(a) 2
(b) 1
(c) 4
(d) 3

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

3. What does Chang Shou-yu want to do as soon as his name is cleared of the un-Communistic claims against him?
(a) Commit suicide.
(b) Work with the black market.
(c) Move his family out of China.
(d) Join a Capitalist movement.

4. What does the Tings' fall from grace mean for the people?
(a) Less food.
(b) A break in Communist power.
(c) The fall of Mao's regime.
(d) Fewer denunciation meetings.

5. What took the doctor so long to attend to Chang Shou-yu before he died?
(a) He was busy with a tuberculosis epidemic.
(b) There was terrible traffic on his way there.
(c) He forgot his equipment and had to go back for it.
(d) The doctor did not approve of Chang Shou-yu.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Jung able to come back to Chengdu when she thought she would be stuck at the work farm?

2. For what are the boys in the Red Guard using their time in the Red Guard?

3. What frustrates Jung about her university experience?

4. Why is De-hong imprisoned again?

5. What does Chang Shou-yu look back on with regret near the end of his life?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. Why was Specs turned down for a promotion?

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