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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 23.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What were the first words De-hong spoke when she woke up in the hospital?
(a) Where is Mother?
(b) Long live Communism.
(c) I love you.
(d) I want a divorce.

2. Why do Jun-ying and a maid move in with Fang-Yu?
(a) She falls ill and needs care.
(b) They hope to win Fang-Yu's good graces and get some of her inheritance money.
(c) She cannot handle the four children alone.
(d) Their houses are burnt down, and they need shelter.

3. What did the letter to Yu-Fang from General Xue's wife say?
(a) It ordered her to leave the house the General had given her.
(b) It was a legal order for her to give any future children to the Xue household.
(c) It berated her for her hateful ways and dishonored her family.
(d) It was a summons for her to come work in the fields of labor at the Xue plantations.

4. Why does De-hong not want her husband to mail a letter to Mao voicing his concerns?
(a) She knows it will not do any good.
(b) She knows it will label their children as Blacks.
(c) She wants the letter to be from both of them.
(d) She fears that he will be killed.

5. Why was Yu-Fang's father so desperate for money?
(a) He wanted a concubine of his own.
(b) His farm was about to be re-possessed.
(c) His wife was ill and needed treatment.
(d) His last crop had been a poor one, and he was starving.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Xiao-hei so distant from his parents?

2. What does Chang Shou-yu suggest that De-hong do in order to protect his children?

3. How did Yu-Fang keep her daughter when the General's wife wanted her?

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

5. What does Chang Shou-yu NOT allow at the funeral?

(see the answer key)

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