All about Wei - A Hundred Flowers Quiz

What was Wei's occupation?

• Gardener

• Writer of Chinese history

• Poet

• Professor of Chinese art history

What does Wei regret? (You may choose more than 1 answer.)

• He wrote a letter to the Premier's office that led to Sheng's arrest.

• He wasn't a very involved father to Sheng when he was younger.

• Sheng married Kai Ying, who is not well-educated.

• He was not a very good son to his own father.

Which of the following is correct about Wei's family?

• Wei's grandfather (Tao's great grandfather) was a wealthy businessman who built one of the first villas in Dongshan.

• When the Communists came into power in 1949, the Lee family villa had to be divided among 3 families due to Communist ideology.

• Wei's family had always been politically active.

• Wei's mother had been his father's 4th much younger wife. Wei was his father's much longed for son and his father was in his seventies when Wei was a child.

What is the name of Wei's wife?

Which of the following quotes from the novel show us that Wei's relationship with his son, Sheng, was sometimes strained?

• Kai Ying had often heard Wei counsel her headstrong husband. "You should always look for the quiet within the storm, and then you'll fund the answers to your questions."

• Wei had missed so much of Sheng's childhood that he had little memory of what his son was like as a boy.

• While Wei's sole interest was in preserving China's past through its art, Sheng believed that if the Chinese were going to forge a stronger nation with a vibrant future, they would have to move past their history and learn from their mistakes.

• Tao had once walked in on his father and grandfather arguing about something, their voices sharp and strained. When they saw him standing there, they smiled and lowered their voices, but it was an entire day before they were themselves again.

When Wei was a young man, he had once entertained the thought of becoming a ...

Wei had received this from Sheng as a birthday gift a long time ago:

Wei's old colleague, Professor Wong, had been an outspoken critic of Mao Zedong. Wong had been seized by police in the middle of the night and...

• sent to a reeducation camp in Shandong to work in the mines.

• executed.

• sent to prison.

• tortured and interrogated.

When Sheng was arrested he knew that Wei had been the one to write the letter to the Premier's Office, and willingly let himself be arrested instead.

• True

• False

Which of the following quotes tell us that when he was arrested Sheng realized that Wei had written the letter?

• Wei saw 'the moment of understanding cross his son's face'

• "Don't worry," Sheng said to him. "Don't say a word. I'll be alright."

• "His eyes told Wei that he meant it. A look of trust a father would give a son."

• "And then Sheng was gone, and he was the one left helpless and heartbroken."