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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How were workers and peasants to be portrayed in all acceptable literary work?
(a) As "heroic and noble."
(b) As "tall, valued, and perfect."
(c) As "humble, wise, and meek."
(d) As "upwardly mobile."

2. What did the Jinggang Mountain Corps want?
(a) To overthrow Nie Yuanzi's leadership of Beida.
(b) To dominate the Red Guard.
(c) To overthrow Chairman Mao.
(d) To support Nie Yuanzi's leadership of Beida.

3. What physical difficulty was brought on for Yue Daiyun and others by the famine in Zhaitang?
(a) Constipation.
(b) Fainting.
(c) Vomiting.
(d) Diarrhea.

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

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 did the "Reveal Things Thoroughly to the Bottom" Detachment intend to do?

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

3. What was the fate of the peasant university students who had not been given an education?

4. What does Yue Daiyun do to comfort the injured Lao Shi?

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

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