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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 solution does Suu Kyi propose to Amnesty International in her first letter addressed to them?
(a) To visit Burma to bear witness to the human rights violations that are occurring.
(b) To have world ministers voice their concerns about Burma.
(c) To have a massive world-wide letter writing campaign to highlight the human rights violation in Burma.
(d) To have the United Nations Security Council intervene.

2. What was Burma's main export?
(a) Spices.
(b) Timber.
(c) Rice.
(d) Gem stones.

3. What did Party Chairman Ne Win, propose after a series of bloodshed and disturbances in 1988?
(a) He proposed to arrest the instigators.
(b) He appointed a vice chair for representative government.
(c) He proposed that a national referendum--a one-party or a multi-party system--be held.
(d) He began to hold forums where citizens could voice their opinions.

4. According to Aung San, why did he encourage the Japanese invasion?
(a) Because "already one seems to hear the distant rumblings of another war"
(b) Because "our people are reeling and suffering unprecedentedly."
(c) Because "we cannot bank our hopes on possibilities."
(d) Because of "our naive blunders and petit-bourgeois timidity.'"

5. How did British colonization occur in Burma?
(a) Abruptly, in a few months.
(b) In three clear-cut phases.
(c) Gradually over 200 years.
(d) After a five-year war.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did political thinking in Burma become increasingly organized?

2. For Aung San Suu Kyi, how will the forces that produce inequities be conquered?

3. At the end of Suu Kyi's speech at the Shwedagon Pagoda in Rangoon on 26 August 1988, she restates their common goal, which is

4. The passage written in 1908 negatively compares the Burmese to the following nationalities EXCEPT?

5. When was Burma eventually granted its independence by the British?

Short Essay Questions

1. How were the British driven out of Burma during World War II?

2. According to Aung San Suu Kyi, what are the four types of corruption?

3. Why were the Burmese not the ideal recipients of the leftist literature that was available in the 1930s?

4. What was the popular response to such basic notions as "representative government, human rights, and the rule of law" in Burma?

5. What was Aung San's response to his fame after he formed the Burmese Independence Army was formed in 1942?

6. How did one British writing describe a condescending stance toward the Burmese?

7. Under what conditions would Aung San resign as leader of Burma?

8. Where did the nationalism movement arise in Burma

9. In Suu Kyi's first letter addressed to Amnesty International, what solution does she propose to the organization?

10. What does Aung San Suu Kyi say about democracy in her speech at the mass rally at the Shwedagon Pagoda in Rangoon on 26 August 1988?

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