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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 27.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are people labeled when their loyalty to the Communist cause is questioned?
(a) White or Gray.
(b) Yellow or Red.
(c) Gray or Black.
(d) Blue or Brown.

2. What was the special broadcast about on September 9, 1976?
(a) Japan had attacked Peking.
(b) China was going to war.
(c) Mao was dead.
(d) Communism was challenged.

3. Why would a widowed woman kill herself before being married to a second husband?
(a) It was the custom of the time.
(b) It was a sign of dishonor.
(c) She feared being cut in half as a result of having two men lay claim to her.
(d) She would be cursed in the afterlife.

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

5. What was Mao's new idea about doctors?
(a) They need much more training than they are getting.
(b) They are of utmost importance in society.
(c) They are spreading anti-Mao propaganda.
(d) They do not need much training.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why were De-hong and Wang Yu forced to "self-admonishment"?

2. What do Jung and her siblings take turns doing for months at a time while their parents are at a work farm?

3. Why does De-hong not want her husband to mail a letter to Mao voicing his concerns?

4. What is Yu-lin studying to become?

5. Why does Chang Shou-yu leave a sightseeing trip early?

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