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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Yue Daiyun learn to carry water?
(a) On her head.
(b) On a shoulder pole.
(c) In handheld buckets.
(d) In a wheelbarrow.

2. What does Yue Daiyun do to comfort the injured Lao Shi?
(a) Smuggles cookies to him.
(b) Tells him funny stories.
(c) Prepares buns from white flour.
(d) Massages his injured back.

3. What is a kang?
(a) A blanket.
(b) A heated sleeping platform.
(c) A sleeping mat.
(d) A sleeping bag.

4. What work assignment did Yue Daiyun receive upon returning to Beida after her two-year absence?
(a) Cutting stencils for supplementary materials.
(b) Working as a librarian.
(c) Teaching first-year students in literary history.
(d) Writing commentaries on poems of the Tang dynasty.

5. Why would a good Communist mistrust his own conscience?
(a) The Party had greater wisdom.
(b) The individual was always wrong.
(c) Conscience is the voice of evil.
(d) The Party would punish such thinking.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Yue Daiyun's first assigned task at the commune in Zhaitang?

2. What was Yue Daiyun's job during the famine in Zhaitang?

3. What did Chairman Mao seem to be encouraging in 1956?

4. What percentage of workers charged as rightists were work units expected to unveil in 1958?

5. What was Yue Daiyun's favorite pastime while she wandered in the mountains of Zhaitang?

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