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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 did Song Po-Po try to do while Ji Li was sick with a fever?

2. How was Grandmother taken to the clinic?

3. What did Six Fingers run?

4. What picture hung on Ji Li's classroom wall at the beginning of the book?

5. Where did Jia Hong-yu see the largest group of Red Guards?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Ji Li respond to the bike incident?

2. What did Ji Li do at Grandpa Hong's?

3. How did Ji Li choose what to put on her posters?

4. What was Ji Li's living situation at the beginning of the book?

5. What kind of honor was Ji Li given at the beginning of the book?

6. Why was Ji Li's name included on a poster?

7. What did Ji Li have to do outside of Jiang-Xi's house?

8. Why did Ji Li have to take over the cooking in her house and how did she feel about this?

9. Why were classes canceled?

10. What made Ji Li happy to skip school?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How did the relationship between Ji Li and her father change throughout the course of the story, and how did these changes affect the people around them?

Essay Topic 2

How was the theme of diversity shown in this book, and which people were most affected by this?

Essay Topic 3

What are some of the ways Mother and Father showed their love to each other, and how did these displays affect Ji Li's ideas about life?

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