Read the paragraph below and determine cause and effect. On the United States' two hundredth birthday, July 4, 1976, President Ford went to Independence Hall in Philadelphia. With a special hammer, he tapped the Liberty Bell thirteen
times, once for each of the thirteen colonies that fought for liberty.

What caused the Liberty Bell to be rung?

It was President Ford's birthday.

It was America's 200th birthday

To celebrate the war in the colonies.

learning how to embrace the effects of colonialism is one of the central ideas of the play.

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serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.