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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What setting is established in the opening of Chapter 2, "Silent Spring"?
(a) The Greater Khingan Mountains.
(b) The Himalayan Mountains.
(c) The Pamir Mountains.
(d) The Qilian Mountains.

2. What was the profession held by Hai Mo?
(a) Butcher.
(b) Chemist.
(c) Newspaper reporter.
(d) Screenwriter and novelist.

3. Who has implicated Ye Wenjie for writing a letter that promotes anti-socialist ideals in Chapter 2, "Silent Spring"?
(a) Shao Lin.
(b) Cheng Lihua.
(c) Ruan Wen.
(d) Bai Mulin.

4. 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"?
(a) Dramatic irony.
(b) Onomatopoeia.
(c) Simile.
(d) Metaphor.

5. What term is Wang Miao contemplating from the Three Bodies game in the beginning of Chapter 8, "Ye Wenjie"?
(a) "Chaotic Era."
(b) "Sentient Era."
(c) "Lost Era."
(d) "Secret Agent X-9."

6. What word refers to the branch of technology dealing with manipulation of matter on an atomic, molecular, and supramolecular scale?
(a) Nanotechnology.
(b) Astrophysics.
(c) Geometry.
(d) Neurobiology.

7. How has Professor Ruan Wen committed suicide in Chapter 1, "The Madness Years"?
(a) By jumping into a river.
(b) By hanging herself from a closet door.
(c) By overdosing on sleeping pills.
(d) By driving her car into a tree.

8. Who is the author of the book Silent Spring?
(a) James Joyce.
(b) Oscar Wilde.
(c) Rachel Carson.
(d) Matilda Smith.

9. Who is the female military representative from the Intermediate People's Court that visits Ye Wenjie in jail in Chapter 2, "Silent Spring"?
(a) Bai Mulin.
(b) Rachel Carson.
(c) Cheng Lihua.
(d) Shao Lin.

10. When was the Planck satellite launched?
(a) 1992.
(b) 2009.
(c) 2001.
(d) 2013.

11. Who was killed along with Ye Wenjie's husband due to an accident at the base, according to the narrative in Chapter 14, "Red Coast IV"?
(a) Lei Zhicheng.
(b) Bai Mulin.
(c) Cheng Lihua.
(d) Director Zhang.

12. Who launched the Planck satellite, according to the narrator in Chapter 9, "The Universe Flickers"?
(a) The European Space Agency.
(b) The Russian Space Agency.
(c) The United States Space Agency.
(d) The Chinese Space Agency.

13. Who beats Ye Zhetai to death in Chapter 1, "The Madness Years"?
(a) Three young men.
(b) Four teenage girls.
(c) Two old men.
(d) Two young girls.

14. From what belief system does the translator note the term "Monsters and Demons" is derived in Chapter 1, "The Madness Years"?
(a) Hinduism.
(b) Buddhism.
(c) Christianity.
(d) Islam.

15. Who is the director of the Division Political Department that interviews Ye Wenjie in Chapter 2, "Silent Spring"?
(a) Director Lin.
(b) Director Cheng.
(c) Director Zhang.
(d) Director Wen.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many regiments comprise the Inner Mongolia Production and Construction Corps, according to the narrator in Chapter 2, "Silent Spring"?

2. What was Wu Han's profession?

3. Whom did Ye Wenjie marry?

4. What scientific paper is presented to Ye Wenjie as one that she wrote in 1966 in Chapter 3, "Red Coast I"?

5. What are the May Seventh Cadre Schools described as in the Translator's Note in Chapter 3, "Red Coast I"?

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