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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was Yue Daiyun's first assigned task at the commune in Zhaitang?
(a) Preparing breakfast for the group.
(b) Collecting rocks to build a dam.
(c) Drawing water.
(d) Collecting clay to mix with coal for the fire.

3. What were the "triple evils" to be eliminated in 1957?
(a) Bureaucratism, cretinism, and subjectivism.
(b) Sectarianism, bureaucratism, and socialism.
(c) Objectivism, Confucianism, and sectarianism.
(d) Subjectivism, sectarianism, and bureaucratism.

4. How were landlords punished in the village of Jiangxi during land reform?
(a) They were harassed.
(b) They were killed.
(c) They were beaten.
(d) They were sent away.

5. What disillusioned Yue Daiyun on her trip to the Soviet Union?
(a) She wasn't allowed to visit Red Square.
(b) The Chinese visitors were not considered equals.
(c) The Chinese visitors were rudely treated.
(d) She observed social inequality.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is sent out to announce a baby's one-month anniversary?

2. Why were the peasants reluctant to accept the land that they were given during land reform?

3. What is a cadre?

4. How does Lao Wei advise Yue Daiyun to deal with the cadres?

5. Why was Yue Daiyun's long-awaited home visit depressing?

(see the answer key)

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