A. Describe What You See in This Photograph. Do You Think He Accomplished His Goal?

For use with “The Tiananmen Square Protest” on p. 18 of the January 2014 Scholastic Upfront magazine.

A. Describe what you see in this photograph. Do you think he accomplished his goal?

B. What do you suppose were the consequences of his actions?

C. Would you classify this as courageous or foolish? Justify your reasoning.

1. Students and others demonstrated at Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in 1989 to demand A. the release of an imprisoned opposition leader. B. greater political and personal freedoms. C. the ouster of China’s Communist government. D. all of the above

2. A visit to China by ____ helped fuel the protest in Tiananmen Square. A. U.S. President George H. W. Bush B. U.S. President Richard Nixon C. Russian President Vladimir Putin D. Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev

3. To bring greater attention to their cause, some of the Tiananmen Square protesters A. drove a tank onto the square. B. knocked down a statue of a Communist leader. C. sprayed canisters of tear gas at soldiers. D. went on a hunger strike.

4. Which Chinese leader was instrumental in the government crackdown on the protesters at Tiananmen Square? A. Xi Jinping B. Mao Zedong C. Deng Xiaoping D. Chiang Kai-shek

5. In the years since the Tiananmen Square massacre, China has A. allowed private enterprise to fuel the economy. B. significantly expanded political freedoms and improved its human rights record. C. virtually abandoned Communism. D. all of the above

6. With the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protests approaching this spring, Shao and people around the world are remembering the massacre and trying to make sense of its ____. The Chinese government, though, is planning no ____. A. genesis ... protest B. legacy ... commemorations C. destiny ... investigation D. imagery ... keepsakes E. process ... argument

7. With tensions mounting and local police unable to stop the protests, the Chinese government called in the army. It was the first time since the Communists took power in 1949 that the army had been ____ for ____ purposes. A. restructured ... political B. recalibrated ... disciplinary C. enlisted ... overseas D. mobilized ... domestic E. required ... defensive

8. As the violence ____, China’s leaders, who hadn’t been seen in public in two weeks, emerged from hiding. Hundreds of student ____ were rounded up. A. ensued ... resources B. ameliorated ... protesters C. vacillated ... informants D. escalated ... assistants E. subsided ... dissidents

9. Deng Xiaoping, the Communist leader behind the crackdown, expanded on his earlier economic reforms—if only as a way to ____ pressure for political freedom. A. unleash B. provoke C. satiate D. dignify E. forestall

10. How is China’s government expected to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protest? Why?

11. How did the response of the Chinese government to the Tiananmen Square demonstration change as the protest continued?

12. Why do you think talk of greater democracy in China is “largely off the agenda” now, as one expert says?