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Who are Ji-yong and Ji-yun?
This word means to think deeply or carefully about something, often involving prolonged and serious thought.
What is contemplate
This is the name of the book with all of Chairman Mao's sayings that Ji-li forgot at home.
What is the Precious Red Book?
Identify this figurative language: "Like a tree with only one trunk, our alley had only one exit to the busy street."
What is a simile?
"Old customs, old culture, old habits, old ideas" are known as this.
What are the four olds?
Ji-li's best friend whose mother was subject to struggle meetings.
Who is An-Yi?
To do something in a serious, formal, or dignified manner, often with a sense of gravity.
What is solemnly?
Ji-yong fights another student over this item.
What is his Liberation Army Cap?
Identify this figurative language: "All these things are intended to change good young socialists into corrupt revisionists. They are invisible knives that are even more dangerous than real knives or guns."
What is a metaphor?
Posters that criticize others are known as this.
What is "da-zi-bao"?
This person was responsible for bullying Ji-li and announcing her class status to the entire class.
Who is Du-Hai?
Factors or thoughts taken into account when making a decision or forming an opinion.
What are considerations?
Ji-li and her classmate participate in this to show the "evils of the past" while celebrating their current culture.
What is the Class Exhibition?
Identify this figurative language: "One afternoon, a week after the audition, I came home from school and saw a boy blowing big splendid bubbles."
What is alliteration?
Ji-li's father works here. It was also here that he was detained.
Where is the Theater?
This person was Ji-li's nanny. She openly criticized the searches and the National Party Committee.
Who is Song Po-po?
This adjective describes something that is harmful in a gradual or subtle way, often causing damage over time.
What is pernicious?
Grandma must do this as punishment for being a landlord's wife.
What is sweep the alley way?
Identify this figurative language: "The gray walls closed in around me, and a slow drizzle dampened my cheeks."
What is personification?
This man was the leader of Communist China during the Cultural Revolution.
Who is Chairman Mao Zedong?
This person was locked up for refusing to admit guilt for something he never did. He is also Ji-li's father.
Who is Jiang Xi-reng?
This word describes a situation or event that is favorable or likely to lead to success.
What is auspicious?
Ji-li accepted work placement here during the summer. Ultimately, she passed out and was offered help by Bai Shan.
Where are the rice fields?
Identify this figurative language: "Six Fingers is always at every search. He's too sick to work at the lightbulb factory, but he's not too sick to go to every search and carry things out."
What is irony?
This campaign targeted traditional elements of Chinese culture, leading to the destruction of signs and valuable artifacts.
What is "Destroy the Four Olds"?