2. In Chapter 7, when did Cheng stop receiving a newspaper in her cell?
(a) November 30.
(b) December 2.
(c) November 15.
(d) December 27.

3. In 1966, how many people in Shanghai lived as Westerners?
(a) Five or six familes.
(b) Maybe twenty families.
(c) A couple dozen familes.
(d) A dozen or so families.

4. Who was the only person Cheng knew who succeeded in committing suicide in No. 1 Detention House?
(a) Li Zhen.
(b) Dr. Huang.
(c) Chen Yi.
(d) Dr. Song.

5. How much money did Cheng save to give to her gardener?
(a) 700 yuan.
(b) 300 yuan.
(c) 800 yuan.
(d) 400 yuan.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Cheng doing when she was told to report for her first interrogation session?

2. What day of the week were prisoners in No. 1 Detention House allowed to have brooms?

3. Who was the artist who painted the painting that hung in Cheng's dining room in 1966?

4. How would Cheng and Meiping communicate when Cheng was under house arrest?

5. How long did it take the Communist Party to overthrow the Kuomintang government?

Short Essay Questions

1. What were some of prison regulations at No. 1 Detention House?

2. Why did the overthrow of the Shanghai municipal government by the radicals shatter any hope Cheng had of a quick solution to her predicament?

3. Why did Xiao Xu tell Cheng that she and Meiping should flee to Hong Kong?

4. How did Dr. Song commit suicide in No. 1 Detention House?

5. How did Cheng gain a moral advantage over her interrogator and reinforce her self-confidence?

6. What did a Red Guard do when Cheng told him it was against the Constitution of the People's Republic to enter a private home without a search warrant?

7. What were the nine categories of enemies during the Cultural Revolution?

8. What nightmare did Cheng have in Chapter 6?

9. What did Cheng see from the window of Meiping's room during the looting by the Red Guards?

10. Why did Li Zhen commit suicide?

(see the answer keys)

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