View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has Er-hong been taught about the children in the Western countries?
(a) They are just the same as Chinese people.
(b) They are cruel and vicious.
(c) They are deprived and starving.
(d) They are trying to invade China and take over.

2. Why are Dr. Xia's children angry with the match between Yu-Fang and their father?
(a) They are afraid Yu-Fang will take over their fortune.
(b) They dissapprove of her former life as a concubine.
(c) They are upset about the age difference.
(d) They do not respect her family heritage.

3. What is the party doing that is grating so heavily on De-hong's nerves while she is being questioned?
(a) Making demands of and suspecting people who are innocent.
(b) Imposing unfair restrictions.
(c) Giving Wang Yu power.
(d) Instating ridiculous safety measures.

4. What is De-hong studying to become?
(a) A Communist.
(b) A teacher.
(c) A midwife.
(d) A wife.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did De-hong see Wang Yu before actually meeting him?

2. What does Yu-Fang do to pass the time in her loneliness?

3. Why does Er-hong ask her father for a new name?

4. Why did Lin's husband pass her around to family members?

5. Why would a Chinese man have to bow to a Japanese child?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened to the Japanese people who remained in China after they were defeated?

2. What does Fang-Yu do on her visit with De-hong that the Communist Party forbids?

3. Why was Yang Ru-shan's main duty in life to produce male heirs?

4. How do Fang-Yu and Dr. Xia meet?

5. What does a neighbor woman tell Er-hong that confuses her about the political views she has been taught?

6. Why does De-hong live in a different house than her husband?

7. What happens to the man that Dr. Xia tries to treat with rice from the black market?

8. After all the other groups that took up occupancy in China, the Communists did something that was surprising to the Chinese people. What was this?

9. What did Chang Shou-yu do to show his growing love for his family that makes De-hong call him a "silly old thing"?

10. How does Dr. Xia's oldest son show his disdain for his father's new wife?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 708 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample