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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does it mean to "draw a line"?
(a) To make one's political position clear.
(b) To align one's self with another person.
(c) To separate one's self from a suspect person.
(d) To strengthen a common bond.

2. What physical affliction had Yue Daiyun's father-in-law suffered in her two-year absence?
(a) Debilitating high blood pressure.
(b) A paralyzing stroke.
(c) Memory loss.
(d) Heart failure.

3. What interrupted Yue Daiyun's celebration of her son's one-month birthday?
(a) A meeting at which her husband was to be honored.
(b) A meeting at which her husband was to be criticized.
(c) A meeting at which she was to be honored.
(d) A meeting at which she was to be criticized.

4. What term was given to those whose parents were landlords?
(a) "Alien class element."
(b) "Secret capitalist."
(c) "Counter-revolutionary."
(d) "Stinking rich."

5. How were ordinary people to be portrayed in literature considered appropriate during the Four Clean-Ups?
(a) As villains.
(b) As superhuman.
(c) As real people with normal challenges.
(d) As heroes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Lao Tang conclude after being criticized himself?

2. Under what conditions were Yue Daiyun's parents allowed to buy property?

3. What effect did the struggle sessions have on Lao Chen, the literature department head?

4. Who were the first enemies of the Communists to be punished by being publicly paraded?

5. What is the "white and expert way"?

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