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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Yu-Fang faint when the guards will not let her drop off a package of food at the prison?
(a) She witnesses a brutal beating in the streets.
(b) She sees Mao.
(c) She believes her daughter is dead.
(d) She is starving.

2. What does Chang Shou-yu suggest that De-hong do in order to protect his children?
(a) Join him in his efforts.
(b) Hide in a country village.
(c) Move in with her mother.
(d) Divorce him.

3. Why did Jung go to Peking?
(a) For Red Guard training.
(b) To retrieve her mother.
(c) For a vacation.
(d) To see Mao.

4. Why does Jung have to rush to get back on a train during her trip to Peking?
(a) She had to use the restroom, but there are people riding the train on the toilets.
(b) She thinks she sees Mao, but it turns out to be someone else.
(c) She feels so trapped that she needs some fresh air before the train leaves again.
(d) She has to buy some food because she is starving.

5. Why was Jung so shocked about what happened to a woman accused of having a picture of pre-Communist leaders?
(a) The complaint was lodged for revenge and was not true.
(b) The woman looked just like her mom.
(c) The woman died and was innocent.
(d) She was beaten beyond what the punishment for her crime should have been.

6. What do Jung and her siblings take turns doing for months at a time while their parents are at a work farm?
(a) Attending college.
(b) Taking sick leave.
(c) Tending to their sick relatives.
(d) Visiting their parents.

7. Who is sent to bring De-hong home from Peking?
(a) Yu-Fang.
(b) General Xue.
(c) Wang Yu.
(d) Jung Chang.

8. Who helped Jung get back on the train on her trip home from Peking?
(a) Another Red Guard student.
(b) De-hong.
(c) Mao.
(d) A pickpocket.

9. What do the Chinese military leaders do in an effort to stop all the violence of the Red Guard and the other Maoist factions?
(a) Drop pamphlets from ths sky.
(b) Punish severely those who are caught doing violent acts.
(c) Write peaceful articles in the newspaper.
(d) Hold public prayer meetings.

10. What does the Tings' fall from grace mean for the people?
(a) Fewer denunciation meetings.
(b) Less food.
(c) The fall of Mao's regime.
(d) A break in Communist power.

11. How old is Xiao-fang when he finally receives his first schooling?
(a) 16
(b) 12
(c) 10
(d) 6

12. What does De-hong do to get Xiao-hong permission to come to Chengdu with her husband?
(a) She pays a hefty fine to the government.
(b) She has a doctor declare that Xiao-hong has an incurable disease.
(c) She has her husband declare that he is willing to go into rehabilitation.
(d) She takes on a lowly job in a factory to prove her loyalty to the party.

13. What does Jung promise to deny herself to help assuage the guilt she feels about Yu-Fang's pain?
(a) Opium.
(b) Sleep for a week.
(c) Reading books.
(d) The companionship of young men.

14. Why does the man at the teahouse not leave while it is being torn apart?
(a) It is his teahouse; he has nowhere else to go.
(b) He is holding his own sort of protest.
(c) His time at the teahouse is his only hour of peace.
(d) He is hoping to scare the young people with his serenity.

15. Where does Jung sleep while caring for her sick grandmother?
(a) On the street.
(b) In a hostel.
(c) In her own hospital bed.
(d) Under her grandmother's hospital bed.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why were Jung and her classmates taken to a port city during one of their university classes?

3. Why is Jung not allowed to take the entrance exams for the universities?

4. Why is De-hong trying to go to Peking after her husband is arrested?

5. What does Mao call for to help him feel secure in his power after the famine?

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