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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the bride approach her husband's home in Chinese tradition?
(a) She walks with her relatives.
(b) She walks alone.
(c) She walks with her groom.
(d) She is carried there.

2. Why was the poet Lin Zhao executed?
(a) Attacking Chairman Mao's policies.
(b) Secret subversive activity.
(c) Distributing underground literature.
(d) Poor quality poems.

3. What did Lao Tang conclude after being criticized himself?
(a) He had been wrongly criticized.
(b) People are unable to control their own fate.
(c) The Communist party was wrong.
(d) He was rightly criticized.

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

5. What objection did Communist party members have to the French novel, The Red and the Black?
(a) It encouraged disrespect.
(b) It encouraged immorality.
(c) It encouraged blind acquiescence.
(d) It encouraged individual creativity over self-effacement.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lao Wei counsel Yue Daiyun to do to redeem herself with the party?

2. What happened for the first time during the June 18th affair?

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

4. Who was Yue Daiyun's first love?

5. How many people in Beida had been declared rightists in 1958?

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