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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Of what did Lao Pan accuse Yue Daiyun?
(a) Disrespect of Communist authority.
(b) Personal ambition.
(c) Undermining Chairman Mao.
(d) Capitalist ideas.

2. Which two Beida groups refused to give ground and cooperate?
(a) Jinggang Mountain and Nie Yuanzi.
(b) New Beida and Jinggang Mountain.
(c) Administrators and Nie Yuanzi.
(d) Students and teachers.

3. Why did Yue Daiyun's sister-in-law insist that the family separate during meals?
(a) She didn't have time to prepare meals for the whole group.
(b) She wanted to draw a line between her and Yue Daiyun.
(c) The children were affected by family arguments.
(d) Lao Tang had been declared a "big black element."

4. What did the revolutionary students say the literature department had done to corrupt student morality?
(a) Advocated illicit sexual relations.
(b) Allowed the reading of "yellow novels."
(c) Taught bourgeois ideologies.
(d) Encouraged suicide.

5. What political decision did Yue Daiyun make upon her return to Beida after her two-year absence?
(a) To avoid social issues and concentrate on her studies.
(b) To carefully select which social issues should involve her.
(c) To focus on social issues and her studies.
(d) To become a leader in the field of literary history.

Short Answer Questions

1. What physical affliction had Yue Daiyun's father-in-law suffered in her two-year absence?

2. What term was given to those whose parents were landlords?

3. How did Lao Shi die?

4. Why would a good Communist mistrust his own conscience?

5. What was the rationale for putting literature students to hard physical labor?

(see the answer key)

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