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- 4. What ceremony would ordinary people host that would often make them go bankrupt?
- 10. What color was supposed to be restful?
- 12. What illness did Jung Chang’s mother have while pregnant?
- 13. For the first time, Jung Chang’s mother got to eat ____ and fresh vegetables every day.
- 16. The skeletons of what animal were found during the digging?
- 18. What classification would ruin the lives of Chung Chang’s family?
- 23. What color cloth did Jung Chang’s mother and Mrs. Ting buy and wear under their Lenin jackets?
- 24. What Chinese name means “selfless to the point of being considered foolish?”
- 27. What country did Jung Chang’s brother adore?
- 29. How were Jung Chang’s parents addressed at Jung Chang’s school?
- 30. One explanation for the extreme famine was that China had to pay back debt from the Korean War and give aid to ______ Korea.
- 31. Before Jung Chang was three, she was known as “Little _________”.
- 33. In Chinese tradition, who had the most power over a married woman?
- 34. The bandits were keen on capturing the two mothers because they were the ______ of high Communist officials.
- 36. What common American gesture did Jung Chang think was a swear word?
- 37. What was the name of the most populous province in China in the 1950s?
- 39. ______ Tree was the new boarding school next to Jung Chang’s compound.
- 41. How many grades were officials and government employees divided into?
- 42. When one person was condemned, their whole family could be _________.
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- 1. In 1956, what day did officials start getting off?
- 2. What color food coupons did Jung Chang's mother get?
- 3. Jung Chang’s mother was followed by “__________” as she was being investigated.
- 5. Mr. Ying was condemned a _________ because he spoke up at a conference, about his complaints about the way things were run in his area.
- 6. In 1958, China out-produced the United States in what crop?
- 7. What part of the house did Jung Chang’s father ban the kids from playing on?
- 8. What did Jung Chang like most about her school?
- 9. Jung Chang’s mother went on many expeditions to collect _____?
- 11. Life for a revolutionary was meaningless if they were rejected by the ______?
- 14. The dream of a Chinese peasant was to have ________ food.
- 15. What did Jung Chang’s father do when her mother said he was a rotten husband?
- 17. When Jung Chang was six years old, she was already involved in ______ production.
- 19. What was a traditional form of pleasure for the Chinese?
- 20. What was a common drug during this time?
- 21. Why did Jung Chang and her siblings get sent when her mother had to leave home?
- 22. What does Zhi mean?
- 25. What did Jung Chang’s grandmother boil to use as shampoo?
- 26. What word is known as “unified purchasing and marketing”?
- 28. How many months was Jung Chang’s mother under investigation?
- 32. Who tried to make themselves more godlike by shrouding himself in mystery?
- 35. Since the famine, Liu and Deng had been liberalizing both the economy and the ________.
- 38. What parts of the duck were considered a great delicacy?
- 40. People learned to defy reason and to live with _______.