The Red Scarf Girl Study Questions

1. The Red Scarf Girl Study Questions PART 2

2. #1 The Liberation army went to the school to recruit red guards and promote the revolutionary cause

3. #2 A big wall at the entrance to Ji-Li’s alley used to promote a new political campaign’s message. The most recent thing on the wall is a copy of a popular painting of maoze-dong. Ji-li feels inspired by it.

4. #3 The red guards found a knife in the garbage bin and searched it. They found the burned pictures and associated the pictures with the knife. Since ji-li’s house was nearby, the red guards searched her home for “weapons.”

5. #4 Jiahong-yu was famous for leading a group of red guards on a 15 day march into the countryside to spread the word about the cultural revolution.

6. #5 Old qian refused to give up his bicycle. He was forced to kneel on a washboard for several hours as his home was being searched at his belongings were taken away.

7. #6 An yi was not allowed to wear mourning bands or cry out at the funeral because her grandmother committed suicide and suicide was considered a crime for “alienating oneself from people”

8. #7 The dunce cap with a red x meant that you were a criminal. Xiao-cheng’s (ji-yung’s father) was forced to wear one and the red guard accused him of being a “capitalist executioner”

9. #8 Ji-li’s father put the mop on the balcony to signal that the red guard are not at their house. if the map is missing, grandmother will know to stay away.

10. #9 Ji-yun’s backpack was thrown out of the school window. The students who did it called her a “black whelp” and threatened to dig her eyes out if she stared at them. The children are accusing and bullying each other just like the adults are.

11. #10 She was considered a black, her father was a capitalist and her mother committed suicide. Sweeping the alley was punishment for her bad class status.

12. #11 A group (ji-yong never says who they are) takes ji-yong’s treasured army cap. It was his friend’s father’s from the liberation army. They also call him a “black whelp”

13. #12 Ji-li’s parents burned their photos because the pictures contained things that were “Four olds”

14. #13 An-yi’s grandmother committed suicide because she was afraid the red guard would search her home and treat her the same way old qian was treated.

15. #14 They would go to the park so that if they red guards came to search the house, they would not be there.