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41 Cards in this Set
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What is history
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Having to do with events in the past
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Historical fiction
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The stories setting or events may be based in the past but specific events or characters may not have existed
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What does Alex's father do?
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He is a cameraman for CBC
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What is Alex's hobby? When did he start it?
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He rebuilds war events and researches them. When his parents separated
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What did the farmer find in the field?
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The farmer had found terra cotta soldiers (500 soldiers, 6 war chariots)
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Why did Alex go to Beijing?
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The other cameraman got hepatitis so Alex's dad replaced him
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What important figurehead was visiting Beijing?
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The Russian premiere, Gorbachev
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Why did Alex read battle plans
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Alex like the feeling that there were rules and strategies and it was clear
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What does lau mean?
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Old
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What does bing long mean?
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Bright dragon
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What name does lau xu give Alex?
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Shan da
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What does Shan da mean?
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Tall mountain
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What is the forbidden city?
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A place where the emperors had lived from 1368-1900s and is surrounded by high walls and a moat
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What does lau xu share with Alex?
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His father was a soldier in the red army when he was 17, long march
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What is the PLA?
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People liberation army, it's what the red army is called since liberation
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Why was lau xu chosen to work for the foreign ministry?
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He speaks excellent English and pretty good French
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What is hu kou?
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A census and residence book
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What is Alex's chinease disguise?
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A light coat
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What was the reason for the first student demonstration?
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Hu Yao bang died
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What is the war story Alex hears?
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Zhu ge Laing made an oath to Xhosa ya that he could make ten thousand arrows in three days. On the third day zhu parked his boats along shore with men made out of straw to catch the arrows Zhou shot at them.
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What does straw boats borrow arrows mean?
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Using your enemies strength against them
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Who is huang lua shi?
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Alex's teacher
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What does Lao shi mean?
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Teacher
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What is xin hua?
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The governments official news agency
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What is marshal law?
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Soldiers on street corners with guns, warrants for no reason, all laws are dropped
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What happens now that the students are labelled counter revolutionaries?
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They can be arrested and shot
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What monument did the student put in the square?
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The goddess of democracy, like the Statue of Liberty but holds the torch with both hands
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Where is Alex staying after he got shot?
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He is staying in a one room brick house on a brick bed with an old lady
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Who walks in the house where Alex is staying?
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The woman who saved Alex
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What did the PLA finally do after telling the students to leave lots?
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They cleared the square using lethal force, ak47s and tanks
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What were the bonfires used for?
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They were used to burn the bodies to cover their crimes.
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What is communism?
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Made by Karl Marx, all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.
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What is the PLA?
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The PLA is the military of the communist government of china, it was known as the red army before liberation
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Who is Lao xu?
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He is a chinease man who has to report to the government on what ted, Eddie, and Alex are doing. He is shot by the PLA trying to reason with them
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What is the importance of human rights?
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Human rights are the rights that we as humans are entitled to. Without these rights the people would create chaos.
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What us it like in Chinese schools?
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Six days a week, no discussion in class, no talking back, and only a ten minute break
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Compare zhu ge liang to the story.
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Zhu used the enemies powered against them (arrows) and in the story Lao xu said that china greatest power was the people and the people began to fight the government.
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Compare Alex and Ulysses
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Ulysses goes sails off to fight a long war far away and when he comes back no one recognizes him and he doesn't fit in, Alex goes to Beijing where there is a gruesome uprising and he comes back changed and doesn't fit in
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How does the Chinese government control the peoples lives?
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They choose what job they do, a hu kou, and everyone has equal everything
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What are some benefits and suffering of difficult situations?
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Benefits are you learn from that incident. Suffering is you can't erase it.
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What is censorship?
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Censorship -- the control of the information and ideas circulated within a society
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