(CNN) -- Long before Chen Guangcheng became internationally known as a human rights crusader, villagers near his home knew him as the man to go to when they had trouble with local authorities. 

Despite having little formal legal education, Chen began advocating on behalf of villagers in 1996 at the age of 25, according to China Human Rights Defenders, a China-based human rights group. 

Chen has been at the center of a burgeoning international impasse since his dramatic escape last week from the guards who kept him under house arrest in a small village in eastern China. He was confined to his home after serving four years in prison, apparently over his legal advocacy for what he called victims of abusive practices such as forced abortions by China's family planning officials. 

Fellow activists say he made his way to the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, where he remains as the United States and China try to sort out the future for Chen, who has sought to call attention to the practice of forced abortions and sterilizations in China. 

Yet he never sought out to be a rabble-rouser, said New York University law professor Jerome Cohen, who first met Chen when the activist traveled to the United States as part of a State Department program in 2004. 

"You got the feeling you were in the presence of some Chinese equivalent of Gandhi or something," Cohen said. "He had this gentle but steely moral force." 

Chen was born in 1971 in Dongshigu, a small farming village in eastern Shandong province, more than 400 kilometers (248 miles) from Beijing.  QUESTIONS:

Q1:
1. Who was able to flee?
2. Who managed to escape house arrest?
3. Who evaded Chinese authorities?
Q2:
1. Where did Chen Guangcheng escape from?
2. What was the site of Chen Guangcheng's escape?
3. Where did Chen Guangcheng flee from?
Q3:
1. What had Chen Guangcheng been sentenced to?
2. How was Chen Guangcheng being punished?
3. How was Chen Guangcheng serving out his sentence?
Q4:
1. Was Chen Guangcheng guarded?
2. Were there people guarding Chen Guangcheng?
3. Were people making sure that Chen Guangcheng didn't flee house arrest?
Q5:
1. Had Chen Guangcheng already served prison time before house arrest?
2. Had Chen Guangcheng spent time in prison before being put under house arrest?
3. Was Chen Guangcheng in prison prior to being under house arrest?
Q6:
1. How much prison time did Chen Guangcheng serve?
2. How long was Chen Guangcheng in prison for?
3. How many years did Chen Guangcheng spend in prison?
Q7:
1. Why was Chen Guangcheng originally in trouble?
2. Why did Chen Guangcheng get in trouble with the law?
3. What set into motion Chen Guangcheng's problems with the law?
Q8:
1. Where did Chen Guangcheng escape to?
2. Where did Chen Guangcheng flee to?
3. To what location was Chen Guangcheng able to make his escape?
Q9:
1. What city was the US Embassy that Chen Guangcheng fled to?
2. In what city did Chen Guangcheng flee to the US Embassy?
3. What was the location of the US Embassy that Chen Guangcheng escaped to?
Q10:
1. What issues was Chen Guangcheng concerned with in China?
2. What issues were the subject of Chen Guangcheng's legal advocacy?
3. What social issues did Chen Guangcheng advocate against?
Q11:
1. When did Chen Guangcheng begin serving as a legal advocate?
2. In what year did Chen Guangcheng begin his legal advocacy?
3. In what year did Chen Guangcheng start acting as a legal advocate?
Q12:
1. How old was Chen Guangcheng in 1996?
2. What was Chen Guangcheng's age in 1996?
3. How old was Chen Guangcheng when he started serving as a legal advocate?
Q13:
1. Where was Chen Guangcheng born?
2. What was the location of Chen Guangcheng's birth?
3. What village was Chen Guangcheng born in?
Q14:
1. Was Chen Guangcheng born in China?
2. Is Donshigu in China?
3. Was Chen Guangcheng's birthplace located in China?
Q15:
1. In what year was Chen Guangcheng born?
2. What was the year of Chen Guangcheng's birth?
3. In what year did Chen Guangcheng come into the world?
Q16:
1. What is the distance between Donshigu and Beijing?
2. How many miles are there between Dongshigu and Beijing?
3. How many miles away from Beijing is Donshigu?
Q17:
1. Was Donshigu a large town?
2. Was Donshigu a bustling metropolis?
3. Was Donshigu a big city with lots going on in it?
Q18:
1. What does Jerome Cohen do for a living?
2. How is Jerome Cohen employed?
3. What is the occupation of Jerome Cohen?
Q19:
1. Where does Jerome Cohen serve as law professor?
2. Which university employs Jerome Cohen as a professor of law?
3. In what university is Jerome Cohen employed as a law professor?
Q20:
1. Had Jerome Cohen met Chen Guangcheng sometime in the past?
2. Was there a meeting in the past between Chen Guangcheng and Jerome Cohen?
3. Had Chen Guangcheng and Jerome Cohen met each other sometime in the past?
Q21:
1. When did Jerome Cohen first meet Chen Guangcheng?
2. In what year was Jerome Cohen introduced to Chen Guangcheng?
3. What year did Jerome Cohen and Chen Guangcheng meet for the first time?
Q22:
1. Where did Jerome Cohen first meet Chen Guangcheng?
2. In what country was Jerome Cohen introduced to Chen Guangcheng?
3. What country did Chen Guangcheng and Jerome Cohen meet in for the first time?
Q23:
1. Who did Jerome Cohen compare Chen Guangcheng to?
2. Who was Chen Guangcheng compared to by Jerome Cohen?
3. Who did Jerome Cohen say that Chen Guangcheng resembled in character?
