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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 Ji Yun called at school?

2. How many rows were rice harvesters assigned?

3. What did Comrade Ma call Ji Li's family?

4. What did Ji Li do when she was injured?

5. How did Fan Wen Chong make the beating stop?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Ji Li feel about not knowing anyone in her Jr. High class?

2. What made Ji Li yell at her mother?

3. What happened to An Yi's mother at work?

4. What did Ji Li learn how to raise in Jr. High, and why?

5. What did Ji Li find when she woke up on Chinese New Year?

6. What did Zhang tell Ji Li when she asked about being chosen to help with the Exhibition?

7. What did Ji Li hope to achieve at the Exhibition?

8. What did Zhang Xin say when he first met Ji Li?

9. What did Comrade Ma say when Ji Li asked to have her name changed?

10. What happened after Ji Li was injured in the fields?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why did Ji Li want to change her name, and what would this have meant to her family?

Essay Topic 2

Friendship is a strong theme throughout the book. Where are some places that this theme appears, and how do the people touched by it react? How do certain friendships change over the course of the book, and what causes these changes?

Essay Topic 3

Father and Zhang were both very dynamic leaders and father figures in this book. What are the differences in the two styles of leadership, and how did these differences affect their lives, their family, and their role in Ji Li's life?

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