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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Old Uncle say that he shared food with Yue Daiyun rather than eating it himself?
(a) He didn't have much of an appetite.
(b) She needed her strength to work.
(c) He had plenty of food stored away.
(d) She was new to hunger, but he was used to it.

2. What was Yue Daiyun's job during the famine in Zhaitang?
(a) Collecting apricot pits for oil.
(b) Caring for pigs.
(c) Grinding corncobs to make flour.
(d) Pitting walnuts.

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

4. How many employees at China Information Headquarters were found to be politically untrustworthy during the Four Clean-Ups?
(a) One-half.
(b) Two-thirds.
(c) One in ten.
(d) One-third.

5. What was Yue Daiyun's assignment during the Four Clean-Ups?
(a) Identify exemplary thinking in foreign literature.
(b) Identify bourgeois thinking in foreign literature.
(c) Identify sympathy toward villains in newspaper and magazine articles.
(d) Identify peasants as heroes in newspaper and magazine articles.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why would a good Communist mistrust his own conscience?

2. What does the name "Lao" mean in Mandarin Chinese?

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

4. What was the first criticism of Lao Tang at the Beida Youth League Congress?

5. What does Yue Daiyun do to comfort the injured Lao Shi?

(see the answer key)

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