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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Yue Daiyun relate to her sister-in-law's father?
(a) They were both condemned as rightists.
(b) They were from the same home town.
(c) They were the same age.
(d) They were both appalled at the elaborate wedding ceremony.

2. What did the students use for hats on the academicians they publicly paraded?
(a) Blindfolds.
(b) Wastebaskets.
(c) Dunce caps.
(d) Handmade caps.

3. What caused the famine in Zhaitang during the autumn of 1959?
(a) Drought.
(b) Mismanagement.
(c) Lack of seeds.
(d) Refusal of the peasant workers to cooperate.

4. How did Yue Daiyun accidentally injure Lao Tang?
(a) She hit him with a lamp, not knowing he was there.
(b) She and the children injured his back while carrying him.
(c) She tripped him, and he fell.
(d) She dropped him while carrying him.

5. Why did Zhou Enlai not order the helicopter carrying Lin Biao's co-conspirators shot down?
(a) He wanted survivors to tell what happened.
(b) He wanted the conspirators imprisoned.
(c) He sympathized with Lin Biao.
(d) He was part of the conspiracy himself.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who were alleged to be Black Gang members?

2. What were students assigned to do in the winter at the cadre school, in the absence of books?

3. What song did Yue Daiyun's brother use to comfort her while she was being criticized?

4. What did Yue Daiyun believe the generation she was teaching had that hers lacked?

5. In Chinese belief, what do physical cataclysms often foretell?

(see the answer key)

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