RSG: Trial Prep

Trial of Chairman Mao: Witness Question Sheet
Directions: You as a witness are to write four questions and answers in the perspective of your character using the book as a reference. You should find passages from the novel in support of Chairman Mao OR evidence against him depending the side of the case you are representing. Remember to USE page numbers and POST these questions on your blog. Lawyers, use this document to create cross-examination questions. Two per character should be sufficient.

Character: An Yi
Student name: Arpita Banerjee

1. Question: How did you feel when you're mom was humiliated?

Answer: I felt bad and very hurt because my mom was a role model for the kids in her school and she got many awards for her teaching before the Cultural Revolution, and now those kids are insulting her saying she was a monster and a class enemy.(51)

2. Question: Why did Yang fan and Dui Hai insult you by saying that you put on skin cream and you wear your hair in a braid?{do you agree that these actions are a bourgoisie sign? why do you put on cream and wear braids... is it for any kind of political reason?}

Answer: Yang Fan and Dui Hai insulted me by saying that because they thought putting skin cream is a sign of a bourgeois life and doing a braid is the sign of an anti revolutionary.(pg 36 and pg 37) No i dont agree that this is a sign of bourgeois sign. I puted skin cream on because i liked to put it on and my hair was long so i couldnt open my hair and if i do a pony i will look bad so i just do braid. It is not for any political reason.

3. Question:Why did you're grandmother commit suicid?

Answer: My grandmother suicided because peoplel were saying that "Old Qian......"" afraid she might be next...." She thought it be her because her husband was a wealthy man and a capatalist. (pg 112, pg 113)

4. Question: Why were you not allowed to wear mourning bands and cry out aloud on you're grandmother's death?{why you were not allowed to mourn and cry. why your grandmother committed suicide}

Answer: I was not allowed to cry out aloud and wear mourning bands because we had a bad class status(pg 139) My grandmother commited suicide because people were saying that "old qian...." "and now her" She also thought it would be her because her husband was a welthy mans and a capatalist.