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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Jin-ming spend much of his time doing?
(a) Beating down dissidents with the Red Guard.
(b) Reading contraband books.
(c) Selling his possessions to put food on the table.
(d) Selling books on the black market.

3. Why is Er-hong so interested in being helpful to everyone she meets?
(a) She feels loyalty to the party at an early age.
(b) She is taught that a helpful attitude will bring her love and prosperity.
(c) She feels pity for her aged grandmother.
(d) It is very popular to be helpful.

4. What does twelve-year-old Xiao-hei do that is so different from other children of high officials?
(a) Joins a street gang.
(b) Goes to college.
(c) Buys and sells books on the black market.
(d) Speaks out against the Revolution.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is happening to De-hong when her husband refuses to let her have a driver take her home from the opera?

2. What does Wang Yu do during their journey that disillusions De-hong about their marriage?

3. Why does Er-hong ask her father for a new name?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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