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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 21.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is happening to De-hong when her husband refuses to let her have a driver take her home from the opera?
(a) She is suffering a nervous breakdown.
(b) She is having a miscarriage.
(c) She is considering leaving her husband.
(d) She is frightened by the images on stage.

2. What does Jung's sister do that Jung thinks is disloyal to her parents?
(a) She joins a street gang.
(b) She sells books on the black market.
(c) She has a boyfriend.
(d) She joins a dance troupe.

3. What does Er-hong do to show her father how humble she is?
(a) She gets embarrassed when she is seen by her teacher in a limo.
(b) She gives of her allowance to underprivileged children.
(c) She never speaks bad of other people and always finds something nice to say.
(d) She asks her father to tell her what she can do to improve herself.

4. What causes Mao to have school children do eye strengthening exercises?
(a) He fears they will overburden themselves before they are of a more useful age.
(b) He sees too many children wearing glasses.
(c) He wants the teachers to think he cares about the children.
(d) He reads a study that says these exercises will increase intelligence.

5. Why would it have been dangerous to be caught with a poem?
(a) They were seen as anti-government messages.
(b) Poetry was seen as a form of revolt.
(c) Many Kuomintang codes were sent in poems.
(d) Poems were a mockery of the logical era Mao was building.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do De-hong and her husband have to walk to their new transfer site?

2. What does Jin-ming spend much of his time doing?

3. Without whom does Jung say she would not have survived the Revolution?

4. What does twelve-year-old Xiao-hei do that is so different from other children of high officials?

5. Why does Wang Yu refuse to let De-hong have the driver take her home?

(see the answer key)

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