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1. What year is established in China in the opening of Chapter 1, "The Madness Years"?

1967.

2. For how long had the Red Union "been attacking the headquarters of the April Twenty-eighth Brigade" when Chapter 1, "The Madness Years" begins?

For two days.

3. What literary device is employed in the following sentence from Chapter 1, "The Madness Years": "Their red flags fluttered restlessly around the brigade building like flames yearning for firewood"?

Simile.

4. In what year was the beginning of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, according to the narrator in Chapter 1, "The Madness Years"?

1966.

5. How old was the girl that is described as being gunned down while waving a flag in Chapter 1, "The Madness Years"?

15.

6. From what belief system does the translator note the term "Monsters and Demons" is derived in Chapter 1, "The Madness Years"?

Buddhism.

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