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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Chang Shou-yu do that finally puts his love above his party?
(a) He hides his family during a party raid.
(b) He allows her to ride a litter to the hospital when she is ill.
(c) He rescues his mother-in-law from interrogators.
(d) He warns De-hong of a trap.

2. What does Chang Shou-yu overhear in a conversation that he is torn about reporting?
(a) A woman asking a man to take her on as his concubine and feed her children.
(b) A woman asking another woman to give her a secret abortion.
(c) Two men discussing complaints about the Communist ruling.
(d) Two men saying Mao should be replaced.

3. What are the Chinese children doing while at school during the famine?
(a) Gathering and melting down scrap metal.
(b) Working in the fields.
(c) Sitting and doing nothing to learn self-discipline.
(d) Memorizing Communist creeds.

4. What is De-hong's first impression of Wang Yu?
(a) He seems rigid in his beliefs but warm to comrades.
(b) He looks hard and cold.
(c) He is dreamy and looks like a poet.
(d) He has a powerful presence.

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

6. What is De-hong's chief job at the Public Affairs Department?
(a) To submit paperwork for new names of the people.
(b) To feed the people.
(c) To allot new homes and estates to new citizens.
(d) To swear people into office.

7. Why are the Governor's wives unable to bear children?
(a) The wives secretly and purposely end all pregnancies.
(b) They are all too young to bear children.
(c) The wives all share a disease that makes them infertile.
(d) The Governor is infertile.

8. What does Wang Yu do during their journey that disillusions De-hong about their marriage?
(a) Speaks ill of her family and friends.
(b) Talks at length with other women in the party.
(c) Accepts a ride in a jeep when she must walk.
(d) Mocks her for her slow pace.

9. What does Fang-Yu do to make a meal for her daughter?
(a) Begs food off the street.
(b) Steals food from a neighbor.
(c) Gleans rice from the fields to cook.
(d) Sells jewlery to buy food to cook.

10. What did the vivid picture show that Yu-Fang told De-hong would be the consequence of lying?
(a) A man bursting into flames and screaming in pain.
(b) A tiger eating a man's head.
(c) A woman with a horrible disease that has caused boils all over her face.
(d) A man getting his tongue ripped out.

11. What does Dr. Xia's son do to convince Yu-Fang and him to move out?
(a) He beats his father senseless.
(b) He threatens to kill himself.
(c) He attacks Yu-Fang.
(d) He pushes De-hong down a dry well.

12. Why did De-hong live with her parents after her transfer instead of her husband?
(a) The Communist party only allowed a certain number of people to be in one home.
(b) Wang Yu was not transferred and had to stay in Yibin.
(c) They were considering a divorce at the time.
(d) Married couples were only allowed to be together on Saturdays.

13. What sickness does De-hong contract while working in the factories?
(a) Herpes.
(b) Tuberculosis.
(c) Yellow fever.
(d) Influenza.

14. How does Pei-o die?
(a) He starves.
(b) He falls ill while working in the prison.
(c) He is hung in a public trial.
(d) He dies in prison.

15. How many concubines does the governor have?
(a) 12
(b) 5
(c) 24
(d) 10

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Wang Yu when his father died?

2. What is the instrument called that Yu-Fang played so well for the General?

3. Why are Dr. Xia's children angry with the match between Yu-Fang and their father?

4. Why was Yu-Fang afraid of her own servants?

5. What happened to the Japanese people who remained in China after they had been defeated?

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