1. Who are the members of Ji-Li’s family? Describe her family home. What class status does her family belong to? What is the occupation of her father? Mother?
Answer:
Ji-Li's family members: Ji-Li's father, Song-Po-Po(nanny/housekeeper:P.14), Ji-Li's mother, Ji-Yong(younger brother), Ji-yun (younger sister), Ji-Li's grandmother (went to modern university, teacher, help found Ji-Li's primary school:P.14), Little white(cat)
Ji-Li's home: bright and warm and welcoming, appartement in Shanghai, had a french window, mahogany table, high ceilings, burgandy curtains, pots on steps.(P.7) 10 times bigger room than classmates, 100 times brighter, full-sized bathroom.(P.15~16)
Family status/class: Middle class who are doing well. Not super-rich, but well-off.
Family occupation: Both parents are an actor/actress. But the now the mother retired and works in a sports equipment store.(P.13)

2. What is Ji-Li’s life at school like? What special honor is Ji-Li picked for at school? Describe Ji-Li’s parents’ reaction. What does Ji-Li do instead of entering the audition?
Answer:
Ji-Li's school life: She's the student chairman of the whole school and also was an outstanding student (P. 9). She was happy and was always respected, loved, able to excel and expected to succeed (P.1). Ji-Li math test was display as exemplary work (P.3). She was known for being good at martial arts since 2nd grade (P.5). She had a da-dui-zhang badge for student chairman of the whole school (P.9). She was correcting her little sister about her piano practice (P.29).
Special honor: She was picked to do an audition for the Central Liberation Army Arts Academy (P.6)
Parents' reaction: Her dad told her not to do the audition and he was serious about it(P.8). She also saw a pain in her dad's eyes that she had never seen before (P.9). Her dad was worried about the political background investigation (P.9). They send a note principal Long (P.10)
Instead of entering the audition: Ji-Li tried hard not to cry about not going to the audition after talking to teacher GU and An Yi, she dogged behind a tree so Principal Long and the 2 boys wouldnt see her because she didn't want to talk to anyone right then (P.12)

3What are the four olds? Provide some exampls of each an explain why they need to be destroyed? What does prospeity mean and why is it considered old
Old culture, a example of a old culture is a store sign.
Old customs, a example is pants that COULD NOT fit a beer bottle.
Old ideas, a example is Chinese paintings.
Old habits, a example is fishing.
They thought if they destroyed the four olds china would become a stronger socialist

4What is Xenonphile? Why was it bad to be a xenophile in revolutionary china
is a person who worships a foreign culture,religion,ideas etc etc. China wanted to have its wn ideas and its own everything.

5 What are da zi bao? What are being done of them? Who is jiang xi-wen? why does ji-li hang a da zi bao on her wall?

da zi bao is a paper that critizices someone/something.She hang one on her wall becuase her friends were putting them on there wall.

6 why does ji-li stop from going to school for awhile?

Someone rights about her in ther da zi bao and she gets a fever.

7What is a rightist? use your won words to briefly explain of remodoling ones ideology

A rightist is a person in a political party who disagrees with the party.

remodoing someones ideology is when they make a political mistake and change there beliefs.

8What did ji-lis grandfather do for a living? how does this affect ji-lis life?

He was a landord. This was a politicle problem. This is why she couldint join the liberation army dance.
Drew