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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Yue Daiyun's favorite pastime while she wandered in the mountains of Zhaitang?
(a) Sketching.
(b) Singing.
(c) Writing poetry.
(d) Calisthenics.

2. Why were qualified teachers hesitant to offer lecture courses upon returning to Beida?
(a) They feared the students would not comprehend their lectures.
(b) They feared having their ignorance revealed.
(c) They feared being unpopular with students.
(d) They feared being labeled "bourgeois academic authorites."

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

4. Why was "How to be a Good Communist" eventually repudiated?
(a) It encouraged slavish submission.
(b) It encouraged constant self-criticism.
(c) It encouraged individuality.
(d) It encouraged denunciation of public figures.

5. Why did Lin Biao, Chairman Mao's closest ally, decide to flee the country?
(a) He had failed in an assassination attempt.
(b) He was embezzling money.
(c) He had struck a deal with the Soviets.
(d) He was disillusioned with Communism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the Red Guard?

2. Where did the "January seizure of Power" in 1967 take place?

3. What first shook Yue Daiyun's faith in the Communist party?

4. What did Nie Yuanzi claim to believe in but refused to do?

5. What disillusioned Yue Daiyun on her trip to the Soviet Union?

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