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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. What was the date of Meiping's birthday?

2. What did Cheng silently recite to herself when handcuffs were waved at her and she was ordered to confess?

3. How many years was the Cultural Revolution in effect?

4. When Cheng was taken to a struggle meeting on July 4, 1966, who was the target of the meeting?

5. How old was the prisoner assigned to Cheng's cell in 1969?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What was one old man's experience with a "rotating struggle"?

3. How had Cheng been able to get books from a bookshop in London?

4. Why did it trouble Cheng that she was put in a ward with surgical cases?

5. Why did Li Zhen commit suicide?

6. How did Xiao Xu escape to Hong Kong?

7. Why didn't Cheng believe that her cellmate received the death penalty?

8. Describe Cheng's cell at No. 1 Detention House.

9. How were the inmates' sheets laundered at No. 1 Detention House?

10. How was evidence manufactured against Liu Shaoqi?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Using examples from the book, discuss how a faith in God helped Cheng deal with the challenges of imprisonment.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss why Mr. Hu advises Cheng to never give a false confession. Use examples from the book.

Essay Topic 3

Using examples from the book, discuss Meiping's attitude toward the challenges she experienced growing up in Communist China, especially since she was from a non-working class family.

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