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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why was Yue Daiyun's long-awaited home visit depressing?
(a) Her students were openly hostile to her.
(b) Her baby didn't remember her, and she was a stranger on campus.
(c) She had to face charges and criticism at home.
(d) She became ill and spent the time recuperating.

2. Who was Ma Mingzhen?
(a) Lin Liguo's wife.
(b) Lin Biao's mistress.
(c) A party leader at Beida.
(d) A chemical worker who had been arrested and shot for speaking critically of Lin Biao.

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

4. What first shook Yue Daiyun's faith in the Communist party?
(a) Criticism of Lao Tang's friendship with her.
(b) Realizing that the famine in 1959 was manmade.
(c) Being forced to criticize others.
(d) Facing criticism as a rightist.

5. What did Nie Yuanzi claim to believe in but refused to do?
(a) Choose leaders by vote.
(b) Self-criticize.
(c) Allow freedom of student speech.
(d) Accept the salary of a worker.

Short Answer Questions

1. How was Beida preparing for nuclear war in 1972?

2. What was Yue Daiyun's job during the famine in Zhaitang?

3. What was meant by saying that Nie Yuanzi could "touch heaven"?

4. What effect did Yue Daiyun believe the elimination of "middle characters" would have on student readers?

5. Why did Old Uncle say that he shared food with Yue Daiyun rather than eating it himself?

(see the answer key)

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