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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did De-hong see Wang Yu before actually meeting him?

2. How did the Kuomintang view the Chinese people?

3. What does Chang Shou-yu NOT allow at the funeral?

4. What does Er-hong do to avoid going to the nursery during the days.

5. What happens to De-hong's classmate when she is found with Communist literature?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Chang Shou-yu do to show his growing love for his family that makes De-hong call him a "silly old thing"?

2. Why is Mao encouraging "intellectuals" to challenge their leaders?

3. What does De-hong see a friend's husband do on their journey that makes her lose faith in her own marriage?

4. Why was Yang Ru-shan in need of more money?

5. What happens to the man that Dr. Xia tries to treat with rice from the black market?

6. Why was Yang Ru-shan's main duty in life to produce male heirs?

7. How do Fang-Yu and Dr. Xia meet?

8. What was the only valuable asset that Yang Ru-shan had to sell in order to gain the money he needed?

9. What happens to cause Dr. Xia to leave his children and his home?

10. After all the other groups that took up occupancy in China, the Communists did something that was surprising to the Chinese people. What was this?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What does Yang Ru-shan do to earn money, and why does he need the money so badly? What are the long lasting effects of this action? How does this action set the tone for the rest of the book?

Essay Topic 2

De-hong witnesses many different things that help to enforce her support of the Communist Party. What are some of the things that she sees happen? What are some of the things she does do to help the Communist movement progress? What would the punishment have been had she been caught? Why is she willing to risk this?

Essay Topic 3

How did Chang Shou-yu die? Why was this allowed to happen? What would you have done if you had been De-hong, and why?

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