Test 7
Multiple choice questions. 5 points each. The novel “Scars”, the movie “The Return” by Hayek,
| In which year was the novella Scar by Lu Xinhua published in China? | |||||||||||
| 1949 | 1957 | 1978 | 1981 | ||||||||
| Why does the 16-year-old heroine Wang Xiaohua disown her mother and move out of the house to start living in rural China? | |||||||||||
| Mom is being investigated as a traitor | Mom verbally and physically abuses her | ||||||||||
| Mom does not approve her dating early | All youth were sent down to countryside | ||||||||||
| Why couldn’t Wang Xiaohua join the communist youth league as she wished? | |||||||||||
| She is too young | She is from Shanghai | Her mom is a traitor | She doesn’t do manual labor well | ||||||||
| How many years has it been before she gets to visit her mother in Shanghai? | |||||||||||
| 4 | 6 | 7 | 9 | ||||||||
| During the Cultural Revolution, what family background is viewed as politically desirable for social privileges? | |||||||||||
| Landlord | Rich peasant | Poor peasants | Well educated | ||||||||
| What is the meaning of “bourgeois sentiments” to be stamped out? | |||||||||||
| Compassion and love for laborers | Loyalty to the king and emperor | ||||||||||
| Familial ties and kinship among relatives | Hatred for the wealthy | ||||||||||
| Whom were the Red Guards supposed to guard against? | |||||||||||
| Lin Biao, designated successor of Mao | Mao as China’s paramount leader | ||||||||||
| Sun Yah-sun the founder of the Republic | Marx and Lenin the founders of communism | ||||||||||
| In which year did the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution end? | |||||||||||
| 1966 | 1976 | 1981 | 1986 | ||||||||
| How to interpret the code known as “kinship concealment”? | |||||||||||
| Conceal the wrongdoing of a family member is not a crime | Aiding and abetting an offence against government authority is a crime | ||||||||||
| Reward and honor for those individuals speaking truth to power | Criminalize actions considered subversive to those in power | ||||||||||
| Who was not one of the “Gang of Four”? | |||||||||||
| Yao wenyuan | Lin Biao | Jiang Qing | Wang Hongwen | Zhang Chunqiao | |||||||
| In which year was Zhang Yimou’s film Homecoming released in China? | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1986 | 1998 | 2008 | 2014 | |||||||||||||||
| What is the name of the ballet we see Dandan rehearsing on stage at the beginning of the film? | ||||||||||||||||||
| The White Haired Girl | Swan Like | The East is Red | The East is Red | |||||||||||||||
| For what reason was Lu Yanshi sent to a reform camp to do manual labor? | ||||||||||||||||||
| He’s a rightist | A landlord | A reactionary | Traitor | Rich peasant | ||||||||||||||
| How old is Dandan when Luy Yanshi was sent to the labor camp never to return? | ||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | 8 | 14 | Unborn | |||||||||||||||
| Why does Dandan refuse to recognize her father and forbid her mother to assist him as a wanted fugitive? | ||||||||||||||||||
| Act loyal to authority will land her the leading role in Red Brigade of Women | Her future is predicated on her loyalty to the party | |||||||||||||||||
| The future for her and her mother rests on their political allegiance to the party | All of the above | |||||||||||||||||
| Ever since Ly Yanshi is arrested the second time, Feng Wanyu disallow daughter Dandan to live at home. Why? | ||||||||||||||||||
| Dandan is selfish and betray her family | She won’t have her cohabit with boyfriend | |||||||||||||||||
| To make room for his next homecoming | Dandan didn’t get the leading role in ballet | |||||||||||||||||
| Why does Feng Wanyu no longer recognize her husband next to her in bedroom? | ||||||||||||||||||
| He has become so thin and frail after so many years of separation | She was sexually assaulted in the bedroom by a man during his absence | |||||||||||||||||
| She has developed Parkinson and lost all her memory | Lu Yanshi was disfigured while away | |||||||||||||||||
| What treatment does doctor Wang tell Lu Yanshi to try in the hope that Feng Wanyu might regain her memory? | ||||||||||||||||||
| Déjà vu | Old music memory | An old photograph | Old letters | Nothing | ||||||||||||||
| What does Dandan have in common with Wang Xiaohua in novella Scar? | ||||||||||||||||||
| Both try hard to dissolve ties with parents | Both fathers are rightists | |||||||||||||||||
| Both like ballet | Both have doting mothers | |||||||||||||||||
| How do those in pursuit of Lu Yanshi the fugitive know to catch him at the train station where he hopes to meet wife Feng Wanyu? | ||||||||||||||||||
| Dandan told them her parents’ rendezvous | He bought a round-trip train ticket | |||||||||||||||||
| Train station is known to be home for drifters | Trains are the only way to travel incognito | |||||||||||||||||
| Why is Lu Yanshi bent on finding a person named Fang? | ||||||||||||||||||
| To beat him up for making advances on his wife when he is away | To thank him for helping Feng Wanyu out during his absence | |||||||||||||||||
| To apologize for false confession that he made implicating Fang | To find out more clues for Feng Wanyu’s amnesia | |||||||||||||||||
| Where does Mr. Fang go after the cultural revolution is over during which time he was the chair of the revolutionary committee? | ||||||||||||||||||
| He has not been given redress nor released | He has killed himself for being a Maoist | |||||||||||||||||
| He is somewhere under investigation for his role in persecuting innocent individuals | He is honorably discharged and retired, now in hometown in rural China | |||||||||||||||||
| What does Feng Wanyu do after she is warned about grave consequences for aiding and abetting a wanted fugitive like her husband who has just escaped? | ||||||||||||||||||
| Report at once to authority his whereabout | Send food to him | Deny his entry to house | Commit suicide along with her husband | |||||||||||||||
| What is the point or take-way of this love story? | ||||||||||||||||||
| The revolution is a necessary evil | The social upheaval is already over | |||||||||||||||||
| The chaos is over, but the trauma lingers on | What is lost can be reclaimed back | |||||||||||||||||
| What is the name of song melody that, when played on piano by Ly Yanshi, reminds Feng Wanyu of her family life in the past? | ||||||||||||||||||
| The White Haired Girl | The Red Brigade | Song of the Fisherman | The New Woman | |||||||||||||||