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Chairman Mao
100
Ji-li does not want to take part in this character's humiliation for wearing extravagant clothes and make up.
What is Aunt Xi-wen?
100
These remnants of old society interfered with the creation of a modern, socialist/communist society.
What is Four Olds?
100

What did every Red Guard wear to identify their position?

What is a the color red?

100

"Home, I thought. Wasn't a home a private place?"

What is... Ji-li is devastated after the Red Guards come and ransack their home. She feels violated that they could enter her home and go through all of her things. Ji-li's thought sheds light on her growing hesitancy when it comes to the Revolution.

100
Leader of China from 1949-1976.
What is Mao Ze-dong?
200

She's a hater

Who is Yin-Lan-Lan?

200
The derogatory term to describe a person who enjoys and admires a luxurious lifestyle
What is bourgeois?
200

The students march up to this lady's house and make her put up a da-zi-bao about herself

Who is Ji-li's aunt

200

“I felt like a small animal that had fallen into a trap, alone and helpless, and sure that the hunter was coming.”

What is... Ji-li is trapped between remaining loyal to her family and being a loyal member of the Cultural Revolution. Mao, the Red Guard, and the Revolution is the hunter pressuring Ji-li to make a decision.

200

What color was the famous book that Chairman Mao treated like scripture?

What is red?

300
The Cultural Revolution gave her a chance to change from being meek and clumsy to an aggressive bully.
What is Yin Lan-lan?
300
Written propaganda that is used to humiliate and attack people.
What is da-zi-bao?
300

Da-zi-baos are written in these colors

What are black and red?
300

"It is pretty, Grandma,...but it is fourolds. Don't feel bad about it."

What is... Ji-li is convinced (through peers, propaganda, etc.) that anything Four Olds is bad and should be disposed of. Four Olds, according to Ji-li, are only holding the Jiang family back from embracing the Cultural Revolution.

300

Chairman Mao used at least 3 forms of propaganda

What are posters, radio, newspapers, books ?

400

They cut up that one guy's shoes.

Who are The Student Inspectors?

400
In a choice of being a farmer or a millionaire, a follower of Mao would choose to be one of these

What is a farmer?

400

This hater wrote a da-zi-bao about Ji-li

Who is Yin Lan Lan?

400

“I will do my job. I will.”

What is Ji-li will remain loyal to her family and do her part to take care of them. She will not give in to the pressures of the Revolution and will not show weakness in front of her family.

400
Mao used ___________ to influence the Chinese people's beliefs and create distinct separation between the people.
What is propaganda?
500

This rude boy set up Ji-li to be nominated for the Red Successors, only to loudly point out that her grandfather was a landlord. A LANDLORD!

Who is Du Hai?

500

The form of government that Chairman Mao followed

What is Communism?

500
Ji-li's mother and father burn photographs because...
What is to hide evidence of past bourgeois lifestyle from the Red Guard.
500

"Father and mother are dear, but dearer still is Chairman Mao.” 

What is Chairman Mao propaganda  meant to brainwash?

500
The Chinese people supported Mao's revolution because...
What is opportunity for class mobility, distribution of resources, and vision of positive change?