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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is De-hong imprisoned again?
(a) For her past Kuomintang connections.
(b) For her husband's insubordinance.
(c) She threw away a newspaper.
(d) She was heard denouncing Mao in public.

2. 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 believes her daughter is dead.
(c) She is starving.
(d) She sees Mao.

3. For what are the boys in the Red Guard using their time in the Red Guard?
(a) To settle old debts.
(b) To spend time with girls.
(c) To get power.
(d) To have special notice from Mao.

4. What was Mao's goal in sending the middle school children to the country?
(a) Humility based thought reform.
(b) Thought reform through labor.
(c) Reform of thought through peasantry.
(d) Labor intensive training.

5. What is Jung criticized for by the government while teaching at the university?
(a) She is too sad about her father's death.
(b) She is teaching English.
(c) She is twenty-five with no plans to marry.
(d) She does not work long enough hours.

6. What causes Jung to reflect on Mao's unfair treatment of the people while on vacation with her sister?
(a) She reads an article in Newsweek.
(b) She sees him beat a poor farmer.
(c) She watches an uncle die of starvation.
(d) A picture of oneof his vacation homes.

7. What is Chang Shou-yu's punishment for being denounced as a capitalist?
(a) He is put in prison for thirty days.
(b) He is demoted and stripped of all his titles.
(c) He must pay hefty fines to the party.
(d) He must attend denunciation meetings.

8. What is Jung studying and anxious to practice on willing men while at the work farm?
(a) Herbal remedies.
(b) Aromatherapy.
(c) Acupuncture.
(d) Massage.

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

10. From what does Chang Shou-yu suffer when he gets home from Peking after his incarceration?
(a) Tuberculosis
(b) Pneumonia
(c) Yellow fever
(d) Schizophrenia

11. Of what is Mao afraid?
(a) His power being threatened.
(b) Kuomintang officers killing him.
(c) A yellow fever epidemic.
(d) Communism failing.

12. What language is Jung told to study?
(a) Korean.
(b) French.
(c) Japanese.
(d) English.

13. What does Jung want to spend every spare moment doing while she is at the work farm?
(a) Reading.
(b) Eating.
(c) Sleeping.
(d) Talking.

14. What job does Xiao-hei take in hopes of being seen favorably by the party after his father's political position is threatened?
(a) Teacher.
(b) Caring for swine.
(c) Air Force cfficer.
(d) Factory consultant.

15. For what is Chang Shou-yu taken to a hospital to be treated?
(a) Cancer.
(b) A venereal disease.
(c) Depression.
(d) Yellow fever.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is sent to bring De-hong home from Peking?

2. Without whom does Jung say she would not have survived the Revolution?

3. What frustrates Jung about her university experience?

4. What did Jung think her father needed most as he neared another mental breakdown after one of his heart attacks?

5. What was Mao's new idea about doctors?

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