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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Yue Daiyun do to comfort the injured Lao Shi?
(a) Tells him funny stories.
(b) Smuggles cookies to him.
(c) Massages his injured back.
(d) Prepares buns from white flour.

2. What did the "Reveal Things Thoroughly to the Bottom" Detachment intend to do?
(a) Reveal bourgeois thinking among teachers.
(b) Search faculty houses for capitalist possessions.
(c) Reveal counter-revolutionary statements in magazines and newspapers.
(d) Investigate the lives of government officials.

3. What disillusioned Yue Daiyun on her trip to the Soviet Union?
(a) She observed social inequality.
(b) The Chinese visitors were not considered equals.
(c) The Chinese visitors were rudely treated.
(d) She wasn't allowed to visit Red Square.

4. Why did Old Uncle say that he shared food with Yue Daiyun rather than eating it himself?
(a) He didn't have much of an appetite.
(b) He had plenty of food stored away.
(c) She needed her strength to work.
(d) She was new to hunger, but he was used to it.

5. What shocked Yue Daiyun upon her return to Beida?
(a) There were not enough students to justify continuing the university.
(b) The campus had fallen into disrepair.
(c) The campus had been beautified.
(d) The campus was being closed.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did the criminal activities of Lin Liguo and the defection of Lin Biao teach Yue Dainyun?

3. How was Lao Wei exonerated from the rightist charge against him?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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