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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 was the special broadcast about on September 9, 1976?
(a) Mao was dead.
(b) China was going to war.
(c) Communism was challenged.
(d) Japan had attacked Peking.

2. What is Chang Shou-yu's punishment for being denounced as a capitalist?
(a) He is demoted and stripped of all his titles.
(b) He is put in prison for thirty days.
(c) He must attend denunciation meetings.
(d) He must pay hefty fines to the party.

3. What does Jung promise to deny herself to help assuage the guilt she feels about Yu-Fang's pain?
(a) Sleep for a week.
(b) Opium.
(c) The companionship of young men.
(d) Reading books.

4. Why do the students finally let De-hong on the train?
(a) She shows a ticket signed by Mao.
(b) She says she is going to speak against the Tings.
(c) She gives them the secret password,
(d) She pays them.

5. What was Mao's goal in sending the middle school children to the country?
(a) Reform of thought through peasantry.
(b) Humility based thought reform.
(c) Labor intensive training.
(d) Thought reform through labor.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was Jung so shocked about what happened to a woman accused of having a picture of pre-Communist leaders?

2. What causes American literature to suddenly be allowed?

3. What took the doctor so long to attend to Chang Shou-yu before he died?

4. What causes Jung to reflect on Mao's unfair treatment of the people while on vacation with her sister?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Yu-Fang punished when she is denounced?

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. How was Jung's brother kept safe when he was caught with an unsanctioned book?

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

10. What is a barefoot doctor?

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