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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) Singing.
(b) Sketching.
(c) Writing poetry.
(d) Calisthenics.

2. What was the Red Guard?
(a) A department of the army.
(b) A civilian militia.
(c) A group of revolutionary students.
(d) A group of counter-revolutionary students.

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

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) She was new to hunger, but he was used to it.
(c) She needed her strength to work.
(d) He had plenty of food stored away.

5. What effect did Yue Daiyun believe the elimination of "middle characters" would have on student readers?
(a) Readers would suffer from unattainable ideals.
(b) Readers would lower their personal behavioral standards.
(c) Readers would emulate the literary characters.
(d) Readers would distrust the new literature.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was "How to be a Good Communist" eventually repudiated?

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

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

4. What caused the famine in Zhaitang during the autumn of 1959?

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

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