Red Scarf Girl 7-9

What does this passage suggest about Ji-li's family background?

• Ji-li's grandfather was a landlord, but her father grew up without much money.

• Ji-li's parents owned vast amounts of land, but no businesses.

• Ji-li's grandfather exploited farmers who worked for him by making their daughters become maids in his home.

• Ji-li's grandmother exploited the farmers when they didn't pay their rent.

How did Ji-li's father help her feel better?

• He told her that he used to exploit others, but not anymore.

• He told her to fight back if her classmates attacked her because of her family's class status.

• He told her that even though her grandfather was a landlord, she wasn't responsible for his actions.

• He told her to work hard, get good grades, and everything would be all right.

Click on the claim you can make about Yin Lan-lan from the passage.

• Yin Lan-lan used to be a class leader and resented that Ji-li took that away from her.

• Yin Lan-lan had been bullying Ji-li from the day she met her.

• Yin Lan-lan wanted to humiliate Ji-li.

• Yin Lan-lan was afraid of Chairman Mao's power.

Ji-li, her siblings, and her grandmother started to go to the park during the day. What does the passage suggest was the reason they went?

• They went because they wanted to go on a picnic.

• They went because Ji-li’s grandmother didn’t want to be at home worrying about the Red Guards coming to the apartment.

• They went because her father was ashamed that his own mother was a landlord’s wife.

• They went because it was too hot and crowded in the house.

How did Ji-li’s father decide which photos to burn?

• He chose all the photos that were in the family’s photo albums.

• He chose the ones that he thought wouldn’t create a lot of smoke and alert the neighbors.

• He chose all of the photos that he thought could be considered fourolds.

• He chose only the photos of his parents in old-fashioned gowns and mandarin jackets.

Ji-li wondered what she’d be doing if she were born into a Red family. What did she wonder?

• Ji-li wondered if she would hate her grandfather.

• Ji-li wondered if she would challenge Chairman Mao.

• Ji-li wondered if she would move out of Shanghai.

• Ji-li wondered if she would hate her grandmother.

Why didn’t Ji-li want her brother to get his cap back?

• She was worried it would cause more trouble for the family.

• She thought his friends were a bad influence on him and didn’t want him involved with them at all.

• She knew that whoever took it was just fooling around.

• She thought it would show that he didn’t support the Cultural Revolution.

What was An Yi’s mother, Teacher Wei, forced to do?

• She had to sweep the streets.

• She had to beat a gong and speak out against herself in public.

• She had to whip people accused of being “reactionary monsters.”

• She had to leave her teaching job permanently.

Why didn’t Ji-li’s cousin, Shan-shan, help his own mother, Xi-wen, up after she fell? He didn’t help her up because

• her clothes—“an old blue blouse, loose and faded with a big patch on the elbow” —embarrassed him.

• after their house was searched, he officially cut ties with her.

• he thought she fell on purpose to get sympathy.

• he had to live in the same house with her and might never speak to her again.

Why was Ji-li’s sister crying?

• Her hair was a big, tangled mess.

• Some boys bullied her.

• Her grandmother scolded her about losing her schoolbag.

• Her teacher refused to help her.