| Question | Answer |
| Dai Sijie | n. author of the novel Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress and a screenwriter on the film |
| Malaria | n. an intermittent and remittent fever caused by a parasite that invades the red blood cells. the parasite is transmitted by mosquitoes |
| Balzac | n. Balzac, Honore de, a French novelist who lived from 1799 to 1850 |
| Capitalism | n. an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state |
| Emaciated | adj. a body that is thin, skeletal, bony, or skinny |
| Re-educated | v. activity of the program set up by Mao Zedong during the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Students were taken from there homes and sent to the mountainside to be "educated" by illiterate peasants |
| Voyeur | n. a person who gains pleasure from watching others when they are naked |
| Civilized | adj. cultured, refined, sophisticated, educated |
| Savages | n. in historical or literacy contexts, primitive or uncivilized people |
| Mozart Sonata | n. Mozart was an Austrian composer; a sonata ia a classical musical composition usually played by one instrument |
| Intellectuals | adj. people who are able to reason and understand objectively |
| Bourgeois | adj. characteristic of the middle class |
| Peasant | n. a poor farmer of low social status |
| Mao Zedong | n. chairmen of the communist party in china |
| Revolutionary | adj. engaged in or promoting revolution |
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